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“I feel maybe I still don't accept it. The idea that my dad is gone. I don't really get how it could be the case. [...] Like he just sort of exited from time. And we just have to keep going within time.”

Book:Intermezzo

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“And the beautiful bird broke into song, and although it was not a song any bird would recognize, the Strange Bird could understand it and whatever remained of Sanji inside of her recognized it and responded, and the two birds sang one to the other, the dead communicating to the dead in that intimate language.”

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Book:The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

Source: The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

“Whatever the mind believes, the body has a better chance of becoming. An absolute diagnosis is therefore not only false, but also unhelpful.”

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Book:Suddenly Silent and Still

Source: Suddenly Silent and Still

“MALCOLM Dispute it like a man. MACDUFF I shall do so; But I must also feel it as a man; I cannot but remember such things were, That were most precious to me.”

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Book:Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“The mornings ushering in each day, the evenings that daily darken, became shrines.”

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Book:Human Acts

Source: Human Acts

“... grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.”

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Book:The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

“Having accepted the undercurrent ebb and flow presence of this grief I find myself thinking less and less of this horrific period and person. The ever-consuming dark thoughts of grief (and loss) made way for more coherent thinking and mindful living of being in the moment - focusing on the daily awareness of the here and now... It took time, introspection, reflection and soul searching to finally arrive at the other side of this profound and self-enriching journey.”

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Author:Vernon Chalmers

“My mom came up with all kinds of reasons why she didn't want to get off drugs, but I think one of the most poignant ones was her feeling of shame about becoming an addict with two young children. Her parenting standards were so high that I don't think she could ever truly get sober knowing what she had put my sisters through. The one thing that she had always prided herself on was that she was a great mother. She said, "My music wasn't that successful. I didn't finish high school. I'm not beautiful. I'm not good enough - but I'm a great mother." When she started to feel like she wasn't even that, she couldn't handle it....”

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Book:From Here to the Great Unknown

Source: From Here to the Great Unknown

“When you are broken and everything seems to be against you, remember that a victory is possible.”

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Book:A Manual for Victory

Source: A Manual for Victory

“Before I was born, I tried to kill myself. My dad told me how, according to the social worker who’d taken me, I’d wrapped myself up in my birth mom’s umbilical cord as a baby so that I almost choked to death.”

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Book:Softie: Stories

Source: Softie: Stories

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