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“I use words to create and manipulate images, metaphors and symbols and attach them to people, actions, events and feelings.”

Book:The Work Bench

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“The mark of any good show is that you cannot remember it, no matter how much you yearn to. That from the very second the curtains close the whole thing slips through your fingers like grains of sand until all you’re left with, if you’re lucky, is the feeling. You should be struck by the sense that something”

Loss Television

Book:Then Things Went Dark

Source: Then Things Went Dark

“That's your son in there? What's he doing?" asked the Grandma'am, aghast. "He's putting bread crumbs on the body," said Ma. "So Marcus has food on his journey." "His journey where?" asked the Grandma'am. "He's dead!" "Back to wherever he came from," said Ma. "It's what we do, back home. When someone dies.”

Death Loss Superstition Ma Death Customs District Culture

Book:The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Source: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Sadly, one cannot know the best of times until they are gone, they are lost. How I would give the rest of my days to have just one of those days back.”

Loss Best Times

Book:Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

Source: Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

“I feel loss and lost, a hole in the place of what I believed, what I should believe.”

Loss

Book:The Woman in the Library

Source: The Woman in the Library

“But this is my fucking life! My mom died and some reporter wanted a story.” I heaved for air. “And all I cared about was playing in some game. Like that was what mattered. She was dying, and I was mad. I’m still fucking pissed. Criminals survive every day. Murderers and rapists and lunatics. But not her.” “Life, in all the years I’ve been living it, son, doesn’t make a lick of sense where that’s concerned.”

Love Death Sports Loss Healing Mental Health Ya Suspense Hardship

Book:Chasing Headlines

Source: Chasing Headlines

“Little by little the feeling will come back to me, I said to myself, little by little I shall understand.”

Understanding Loss Feeling

Book:Rebecca

Source: Rebecca

“I'd loved Sarah in a different way, but we had both lost her. I hadn't stopped to consider how horrible it was that Lu had lost her twice.”

Death Loss Loss Of A Loved One

Book:Wildwood Magic

Source: Wildwood Magic

“Salt-soaked hair, eyes bloodshot, My soulmate lost out to sea. My only wish - forget me not, Until the day I join with thee.”

Love Poetry Loss Ships Soulmates Past Life Past Lives Strings Of Fate Forget Me Not Salt Soaked

Book:Strings of Fate

Source: Strings of Fate

“They’re all gone now, and there isn’t anything more the sea can do to me. . . . I’ll have no call now to be up crying and praying when the wind breaks from the south, and you can hear the surf is in the east, and the surf is in the west, making a great stir with the two noises, and they hitting one on the other. I’ll have no call now to be going down and getting Holy Water in the dark nights after Samhain, and I won’t care what way the sea is when the other women will be keening. - Maurya; Riders to the Sea”

Death Loss

Book:The Complete Plays of John M. Synge

Source: The Complete Plays of John M. Synge

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