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“In our culture I think most people think of grief as sadness, and that's certainly part of it, a large part of it, but there's also this thorniness, these edges that come out.”

People Thinking Culture Grief Sadness Edges

Author:Anthony Rapp

“There are moods in which we court suffering, in the hope that here, at least, we shall find reality, sharp peaks and edges of truth. But it turns out to be scene-painting and counterfeit. The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.”

Knows Reality Pain Suffering Turns Grief Know How Taught Painting Scene Experience Court Edges Mood Shallow Counterfeit

Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love.”

“There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.”

Doe Real Reality Grief Fine Sorrow Mercy Edges Nerves Ache Blades

Book:A Dirty Job: A Novel

Source: A Dirty Job: A Novel

“She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them. Try to stay still for longer and longer periods of time. Make yourself small and like a stone. Curl the edges of yourself up and fold them under where no one can see. ~pg 29, Susie's sister Lindsey dealing with grief.”

Trying Stills Given Parent Rooms Grief Periods Stones Breaths Edges Sat Folds Given Up Couches Curls Deep Breath

Author:Alice Sebold

“Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.”

Grief Edges Blunt Hacked

Book:Lisey's Story: A Novel

Source: Lisey's Story: A Novel

“It’s like the grief has been covered over with some kind of blanket. It’s still there, but the sharpest edges are .. muffled, sort of. Then, ever now and then, I lift the corner of the blanket just to check, and .. whoa! Like a knife! I’m not sure that will ever change.”

Kind Has Beens Stills Grief Edges Corners Checks Lifts Not Sure Covered Knives Now And Then Blanket

Author:Anne Tyler

“When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge of her awareness, prepared to surface at any time, in any place, in the least expected ways.”

Way Mother Loses Grief Awareness Daughter Longing Prepared Response Edges Surface Disappear Expected Intervals

Book:Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition

Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition