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“Your passed loved ones are not dead and gone, even when it feels like they are.”

Book:11 Lessons from My Dead Dad: How I Learned To Communicate With My Passed Loved Ones & How You Can Too

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“In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in your brain in particular ways. It is because your loved one lived, and because you loved each other, that means when the person is no longer in the outer world, they still physically exist—in the wiring of the neurons of your brain.”

Grief Grieving Mourning Coping

Book:The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

Source: The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

“I can imagine you, Shun and Nozomi, having read this far, thinking 'but will making one little story into a picture really be able to express a problem so huge?' This world is made up of little stories. Those modest daily lives, those lives that may seem insignificant, they give the world shape — that's what I believe. Don't you think that presenting small stories in details is precisely the most certain way to depict huge things?”

Life Art War Stories Loss Grief Story Hiroshima

Book:Soul Lanterns

Source: Soul Lanterns

“Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other.”

Love Grief

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“The worst prison is Comfort Zone.”

Life Lessons

Author:The Minimalists

“How can there be an endpoint to love and loss? Do we even want there to be? The price of loving so deeply is feeling so deeply – but it’s also a gift, the gift of being alive.”

Life Lessons Grief

Book:Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Source: Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“When the world as as knew it ended, we stood up again in the ruin, and found a way to keep walking through tears.”

Death Loss Grief Tears Mourning Carrying On Persevering

Book:Catching the Light

Source: Catching the Light

“I have felt what you are feeling myriad times. It does not get any easier, it simply becomes...familiar.”

Love Death Loss Grief

Book:The Starless Sea

Source: The Starless Sea

“They say to keep counting the years of children who are gone, but I can't forget the way they looked when they left the house that morning.”

Children Death Loss Grief

Book:Soul Lanterns

Source: Soul Lanterns

“That was the first time Nozomi realized that regardless of which type of hibaku people experienced, they were living their lives in fear of an enemy they couldn't see.”

War Fear Grief Enemy Japan Hiroshima Hibaku

Book:Soul Lanterns

Source: Soul Lanterns

“So many people's fates were changed by the flash. Many of those who survived physically were dead inside.”

War Death Loss Grief Dead Hiroshima Bomb

Book:Soul Lanterns

Source: Soul Lanterns

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