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“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”

Book:Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

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Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

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William Goldman

William Goldman is an American novelist born on August 12, 1931. His works are known for their humor, wit, and profound social insight, with notable titles including 'The Maltese Falcon' and 'The Shawshank Redemption'. more

“I have heard countless sad stories since. I witnessed people come into the room for their first group with rounded shoulders, crumpled in grief. I have said, “It’s okay,” a thousand times as a griever sniffles and apologizes for their tears. But what I’ve also seen is the shriveled griever straighten and strengthen as they surprise themselves with a resilience they never thought they were capable of.”

Grief Grieving Grief And Loss Grief Quotes Grief And Healing The Grief Experience

Author:Karyn Arnold

“He helps me navigate a course of healing just like I use my instruments to navigate a safe sailing course on the vast sea.”

Grief Grieving Grief And Loss Grief Quotes Grief And Healing The Grief Experience

Author:Kathleen Banicki

“What continues to surprise me, and what I still don't understand, is not the reason that love ends but the way that it endures.”

Love Loss Grief

Book:Thirst for Salt

Source: Thirst for Salt

“In this way my love for him mirrored my mother's love for my father, which, despite their separation, had endured--call it habit, call it time, call it memory, the memory of love. It's not so easy, after wall, to cut that invisible thread.”

Love Loss Grief Breakup

Book:Thirst for Salt

Source: Thirst for Salt

“I hope that somewhere in the thicket of your sprawling pain you may come upon the small spring that has already cried all the tears before, and, indeed, for you in advance.”

Grief

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

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

“Alfred, when it happened with Mother and Father, how did you help me? Master Bruce, with all due respect, each night you leave this perfectly lovely house and go leaping off buildings dressed as a giant bat. Do you really think I helped you?”

Grief Batman Bruce Wayne Alfred Pennyworth

Book:Batman, Vol. 1: I Am Gotham

Source: Batman, Vol. 1: I Am Gotham

“Time itself does not “console,” as people say superficially; at best it assigns things to their proper place and creates an order.”

Grief

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

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

“We are taught that love is not so different from hatred, that instead of opposites, the two extremes of the human heart might in fact be twins. But it's grief, really, that is love's twin, that knows no bounds of time or space. Wave after wave it keeps coming, whereas hatred cools, fades. So many times I swore that I loved Jude, that no one had ever loved or been loved this way before, and then something broke through, a new depth. Colder and darker moved the waters of my love. Thinking, in those first few days after, of something [my mother] once sad: There is no end to grief, because there is no end to love.”

Love Loss Grief

Book:Thirst for Salt

Source: Thirst for Salt

“Do you still love Jude? I think a part of me always will. It always feels that way at first, she said. But it will stop. I promise. And I didn't know then if that was better, if I even wanted it to. At the time, that seemed to be like the saddest thing.”

Loss Grief Breakup

Book:Thirst for Salt

Source: Thirst for Salt

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