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“Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?”

Mean Next Names Given Grief One Day Function Length Texture

Author:Julian Barnes

“The sin we commit against each other as women is lack of support. We hurt. We hurt each other. We hide. We project. We become mute or duplicitous, and we fester like boiling water until one day we erupt like a geyser. Do we forget we unravel in grief?”

Water Hurt Sin Forget Grief Support One Day Projects Commit Mute Boiling Boiling Water Lack Of Support Geysers

Book:When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“My worst year. The only thing that I know for a fact now is that if it's really a bad day, then I draw the curtains, and I lay in bed. There is no way of dealing with grief. And I have no idea. This year I had double of them, my mother and my husband. I just take it one day at a time.”

Ifs Knows Way Years Ideas Facts Mother Grief Worst One Day Bed Husband Draws Lays No Idea My Husband Curtains Bad Day One Day At A Time Take It One Day At A Time

Author:Iman Abdulmajid

“Grief is a most peculiar thing; we’re so helpless in the face of it. It’s like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it.”

Source: Memoirs Of A Geisha

“Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is that each wound penetrates the body deeper and deeper until one day you find that the sheer geography of your bones - the angle of your hips, the sharpness of your shoulders, as well as the luster of your eyes, the texture of your skin, the openness of your smile - has collapsed under the weight of your griefs.”

Wells Body Happens Eye Lying Grief One Day Skins Weight Deeper Bones Wounds Shoulders Heal Hips Openness Sheer Angle Penetrate Geography Texture Your Smile Sharpness Luster

Author:Thrity Umrigar

“The heart that loves must one day grieve. Love and grief are the Goddess's twined gifts. Let the pain in, let it open your heart to compassion. Let me help you bear your grief and then may your heart ease and open to greater love. May the love that flows eternally through the universe embrace and comfort you. p.85”

Heart May Helping Pain Universe Grief Compassion Greater Bears Comfort One Day Flow Let Me Embrace Ease Grieving Goddess Open Your Heart Greater Love

Book:The Calling: Book Seven

Source: The Calling: Book Seven

“Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.”

Real Form Joy Grief One Day Anxiety Hundred Clouds Sunshine Real Joy

Book:Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)

Source: Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)

“I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and justice. No year of life is emotionally, spiritually or even materially, all drought or all rainfall; nor is it all sun. The road turns a little every day, and one day there's a sudden twist we didn't dream was there, and for every loss there is somewhere a gain, for every grief a happiness, for every deprivation a giving.”

Giving Years Littles Dream Law Life Is Turns Justice Loss Grief Sun Balance One Day Gains Twists Deprivation Drought Years Of Life Rainfall

Author:Faith Baldwin

“Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.”

Next Grief Silence One Day Heavy Loud Lazy Wounded Next Day Numbness Underwater

Book:Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

“I am conscious that knowing me has caused you pain, and grief, and I hope that one day when you are less angry with me and less upset you will see not just that I could only have done the thing that I did, but also that this will help you live a really good life, a better life, than if you hadn’t met me.”

Ifs Done Helping Pain Grief Knowing Mets One Day Conscious Angry Upset Good Life Better Life Really Good Life

Book:Me Before You: A Novel

Source: Me Before You: A Novel

“You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.”

Thinking Persons Stills Past Grief Half Gone Alive One Day Wake Up

Author:Barbara Kingsolver