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“You never think it's going to happen to you, you know? You fret like mad, but some corner of you always believes it will be someone's else husband or father or brother. But no one is immune”

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“The loss that now casts its deep shadow over you is also a task to endure and a matter of coming to terms with all of the suffering that may befall us—for once the mother leaves us, we lose all protection. You have to undergo the terrible process of becoming more resilient. But in return... (and you have also begun to feel this already) in return the power of protection now becomes yours, and all the gentleness which until now you had been able to receive will blossom more and more inside of you into your new capacity to share it as something—inherited and acquired unspeakably, at the deepest price—of your own.”

Death Loss Grief Mourning

Book:The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation

Source: The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation

“We have been more than one year without him, and just now we are starting to see things again.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Poem Mourning Fathers Death Of A Father

Book:Flower Grand First

Source: Flower Grand First

“Forward is the only motion we know. The only direction that can make sense of the loss, that can perhaps, even one day, restore it.”

Loss Moving Forward Restoration Forward Motion

Book:The Lion of the Sea

Source: The Lion of the Sea

“Daar wil ik weer zijn. En nog eens, en nog eens. Ik wil in armen gehouden worden. Ik wil in mijn armen houden.”

Love Loss Grief

Book:Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

Source: Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

“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.”

Love Loss Grief

Book:Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

Source: Grief Is the Thing with Feathers

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