“Ik weet nog dat ik bang was dat er haast wel iets mis móést gaan als we zo gelukkig waren, zij en ik, in de begintijd, toen onze liefde zich naar de vorm van onze levens voegde zoals cakebeslag in de hoeken van het bakblik kruipt terwijl het rijst en bakt.”
Source: Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“MAN "Dan zou mijn verdriet over zijn?"
VOGEL "Nee, zeker niet. Maar je wanhoop was over. Verdriet heb je nog steeds, maar daar heb je geen kraai bij nodig.”
Source: Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“There are countless people I love who are radically altered by their course of treatment, losing more than hair and eyelashes, some marked by ragged scars or amputated limbs. Ours are small, personal losses.”
Source: No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
“It is irrepressibly familiar, the send that the world is suddenly growing smaller and the time growing shorter. I am heavy with the thought of each person I know who needed these months to wander or rest, find their match or start all over, who need the chance to say every hello and goodbye to each delicious moment, unrestricted.”
“It is a gradual kind of strengthening. It takes a long time to see how the losses build you up, rather than strip you down and wear you away.”
Source: The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness: Three Lyrical Short Stories of Texas, Appalachia, and the Untamed American West
“If beginnings are certain to occur, endings are certain to end.”
“Reacting to the day is surrendering your future to its whims.”
“J'ai appris à me battre, à lutter, mais à quel prix.”
Source: Une enfance volée
“Don't fret, ducks - what's gorn's gorn. You can't 'ave it back.”
Source: The Hollow
“The more the other party needs what you can offer, the more they will feel the loss if you walk away. And the more likely they are to say yes to your terms.”
Source: Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People