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“Time is a treasure, given only to those who value it.”

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“You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me.... You'll be all right.”

Death Grieving Choice

Book:Sanas Chormaic: Cormac's Glossary

Source: Sanas Chormaic: Cormac's Glossary

“I do not diminish his love for me,' Imogen said. 'I would never do that. I know precisely how much he loved me: as much as he was capable of loving any woman, probably. He loved me somewhat...after his stables, perhaps more than his mother.' 'Oh, Imogen,' Annabel said. 'Why dwell on such a-' 'Grief is like that!' Imogen snapped. 'You can only fool yourself so far.”

Book:Kiss Me, Annabel

Source: Kiss Me, Annabel

“It's not her fault,' she said. 'Nobody knows how to grieve in this country. They don't make any noise. Nobody taught them how. I don't want to be that way.”

Book:Write Naked

Source: Write Naked

“This is how the soul heals. it thaws out bit by bit, the way the ground warms after a hard winter. you notive the sun or hear the whippoorwill calling across the flats. You sweep your porch, go drink coffee in the shade of the trumpet vines. You have days where you want to lay down and die, but what you learn is this: As long as there's somebody left on this earth who loves you, it's reason enough to stay alive. You don't give in to your broke heart-- you just let the wide, cracked space fill up again.”

Healing Grieving Overcoming Loss Pain

Book:American Pie

Source: American Pie

“There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.”

Grief Grieving Last Times

Book:This Is Where I Leave You

Source: This Is Where I Leave You

“It is not as if an 'I' exists independently over here and then simply loses a 'you' over there, especially if the attachment to 'you' is part of what composes who 'I' am. If I lose you, under these conditions, then I not only mourn the loss, but I become inscrutable to myself. Who 'am' I, without you? When we lose some of these ties by which we are constituted, we do not know who we are or what to do. On one level, I think I have lost 'you' only to discover that 'I' have gone missing as well. At another level, perhaps what I have lost 'in' you, that for which I have no vocabulary, is a relationality that is composed neither exclusively of myself nor you, but is to be conceived as *the tie* by which those terms are differentiated and related.”

Grief Grieving Mourning Grief And Loss

Book:Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

Source: Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

“It is time to teach society on how to be empathetic with people grieving.”

Grieving Loss Of A Child Grieving Parents Parental Bereavement

Book:Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple

Source: Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple

“But we are not going to talk about that right now, because to talk about it I'll have to think about it, and I've thought it to death over the last year. There are parts of my brain that are still tirelessly thinking about it, about her, an entire research and development department wholly dedicated to finding new ways to grieve and mourn and feel sorry for myself. And let me tell you, they're good at what they do down there. So I'll leave them to it.”

Death Grieving Mourning Sadness Lonelyness

Book:How To Talk To A Widower

Source: How To Talk To A Widower

“A four-year-old has so little past, and he remembers almost none of it, neither the father he once had nor the house where he once lived. But he can feel the absences – and feel them as sensation, like a texture that was once at his fingers every day but now is gone and no matter how he gropes or reaches his hand he cannot touch what’s no longer there.”

Love Grief Childhood Youth Experience Grieving Childhood Trauma

Book:Let Him Go

Source: Let Him Go

“There need not be a purpose to a person's death, other than that they have lived the length of their days on this Earth and now begin the longer part of their existence.”

Grief Self Help Grieving Bereavement

Book:What Are You Crying About? Defeating Grief for Christians

Source: What Are You Crying About? Defeating Grief for Christians