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“Something in him screamed for someone to notice him, someone to see him for what he was, what he needed. Someone to take him aside and remind him that he was still loved--to show him where he needed correction. To see him.”

Book:Strength in Measure

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Strength in Measure

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“That night, you turn in your bed to watch the moon rise, and once more see what a small coin it is against the darkness, and how everything else is a mystery, and you know nothing at all except the moonlight is beautiful – white rivers running together along the bare boughs of the trees – and somewhere, for someone, life is becoming moment by moment unbearable. (From Beaver Moon – The Suicide of a Friend, in Twelve Moons by Mary Oliver)”

Grief Depression Suicide

Book:Twelve Moons

Source: Twelve Moons

“Amid all of my diligence and ambition, I’ve never received any answers, I am left ignorant about the family that died before I knew them”

Poetry Grief Depression Confusion Enigma

Book:For the Intellect

Source: For the Intellect

“Frances, sitting with hands folded and face blank, recollecting not in tranquility but in ripe howling grief her husband Steven dead now eight months two weeks one day.”

Death Loss Grief Mourning Spouses Death Of A Spouse

Book:Perfect Happiness

Source: Perfect Happiness

“Frances, finding that useful mechanical smile, hugging Tabitha with one arm, looked at this dumpy man with pointed beard and noticeable brown eyes and saw in his expression the flicker of awkwardness that she generated now all around her. The bereaved are faintly leprous.”

Death Loss Grief Mourning Bereavement Awkwardness

Book:Perfect Happiness

Source: Perfect Happiness

“She wondered why happiness should be so acutely remembered when sorrow vanishes, like pain. Those brilliant tethered moments are seldom black. I was often miserable--but some kindly (or perverse) mechanism of the memory fades out all that, leaving quite other things, and hence an untruthful whole. We quarrelled, but all I have now of those quarrels is a pungent taste, not words nor phrases but a flavour: his silent back, my churning resentment.”

Relationships Memories Loss Grief Sorrow Mourning Quarrels Bereavement Marriages

Book:Perfect Happiness

Source: Perfect Happiness

“Ruth Bowers laid her hand, as she spoke, on Frances's arm and the physical contact was like a burn, distracting her totally. Two days after Steven's death she had lain in bed and thought, I shall never again feel someone else's arms round me, another person's body close up against mine, not sex, not nakedness, just physical closeness, often, casually, with another human being. And now the touch of others--Zoe's quick hugs, Tabitha's dutiful brushing of the cheek--had this disproportionate effect. To be touched was both a sacrilege and a joy.”

Loss Grief Mourning Bereavement Touch Closeness Physicality Physical Contact

Book:Perfect Happiness

Source: Perfect Happiness

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