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“Grief might be easy if there wasn't still such beauty--would be far simpler if the silver maple didn't thrust its leaves into flame, trusting that spring will find it again.”

Book:The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing

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“She went to the church to sit in the cave of stone, filled with the voices of strangers. Murmurs coming through the air, bowling in the ceiling and sifting down with the speckled greens and blues, the deep dark red of the stained glass at the end of the nave. She sat in the hard wooden pew and waited for the hymns. And when the singing started, she could weep. She went to the church to open her mouth and feel her heart again, constricted, struggling, banging against her throat, the tears there in the place of words, her voice struggling out in the vast air, stopped by grief.”

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Book:The Guest Book

Source: The Guest Book

“I've got some broken ducks. I need to get them in a row.”

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Author:Coleman Barks

“For your love given ask no return, none. To love you must love to love.”

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Author:Hayden Carruth

“Why not the Victorians and their sentimental grief-wreaths woven from a loved one's hair?”

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Book:Space, in Chains

Source: Space, in Chains

“The worst lie is to say good-bye. Where are you going that I won't follow?”

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Author:Calvin Forbes

“Lucky life isn't one long string of horrors and there are moments of peace, and pleasure, as I lie in between the blows.”

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Author:Gerald Stern

“Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes it with so silent, yet so baneful, a tooth, as indolence.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Who knows the minute in the moment of last breath?”

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Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“...although being "angry at God"--or at myself, or him, or anyone else--made no sense to me, I was often overwhelmed by sudden, intense bursts of anger that had no outlet, no appropriate target.”

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Book:Why Religion? A Personal Story

Source: Why Religion? A Personal Story

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