“Grief was the exact opposite. It was full and heavy and drowning because it wasn't the absence of everything you lost—it was the culmination of it all, your love, your happiness, your bittersweets, wound tight like a knotted ball of yarn.”
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“She was not ready to face a familiar world in which something so precious was missing.”
“The idea that grief gets heavier the longer you carry it alone is one that has helped me.”
“I couldn’t see a life lived without her. I couldn’t envision a world in which she ceased to exist.”