“He was a coward at heart, and a coward is more afraid of being discovered than he is of anything else.”
Source: Dolores Claiborne
“We are never finished with grief. It is part of the fabric of living. It is always waiting to happen. Love makes memories and life precious; the grief that comes to us is proportionate to that love and is inescapable.”
“I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold onto for very long, and the ones who don't understand you at all stick around.”
Source: Night Film
“Grief looks, feels, and shows up differently to each person. Just like no two losses are alike, no two griefs are alike, either. You cannot know the full depth of another person’s experience and they cannot know the full depth of yours.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“We cannot have, but can lose, everything.”
“When I didn't die, however, and then didn't die some more, I came one day to understand: I wasn't dying; I was grieving. I wasn't dying. Not yet.”
Source: Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
“I’ve lost something and I can’t describe
what it is
_____________
and what if that’s my job
to say how empty an absence is”
“Once grief enters your life, it remains a part of your life whether you acknowledge it or not.”
Source: Permission to Grieve: Creating Grace, Space, & Room to Breathe in the Aftermath of Loss
“Finally, rocking the whole harbour and carrying to every city windows; besetting kitchens with dinner on the stove, and shoddy hotel bedrooms where sheets are never changed, and desks waiting for children to come home, and schools and tennis courts and graveyards; plunging everything into a moment of grief and ruthlessly tearing even the hearts of the uninvolved, the Rakuyo's horn screamed out one last enormous farewell. Trailing white smoke, she sailed straight out to sea.”
Source: The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea
“For a brief moment, I wonder if I would have listened to him if he hadn't died. Would I have clung to his every word so tightly if his advice had felt unlimited?”
Source: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo