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“For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of any interest to me.”

Men Years Used Interest Grief Justify Cynicism Insomnia Casual Anorexia Workaholic

Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a graduation ceremony), to relate, to express love, and/or to establish a relationship. Ceremonies are the human way we have to signpost a deal such as a business merger, to trigger off a healthy grief process (such as in divorce or funeral ceremonies), to welcome another human being into the family. So Ceremonies have these excellent effects - they can be used further to announce intentions, to express loyalty and to reinforce a sense of identity.”

“I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was well prepared for it by the cyclicality of my manic depressive illness because I was used to things coming and going and so forth.”

Thinking Wells Used Found Grief Awareness Prepared Wave Illness Manic Depressive

Author:Kay Redfield Jamison

“We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó.”

Way Feelings Wanted Used Grief Emotion Sadness Changed Moved Obsession

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I think grief is a huge subject; it's one of the things that everybody is going to confront in one way or another. There's been a lot of books written about how Americans have an odd way of trying to defer grief or minimize the need to grieve. People used to have a lot more ritual grief in their lives. For the most part, we think of it as a strictly temporal process: you grieve for a time and then you're over [it], but it's also a spatial process. It travels across a map.”

People Thinking Way Needs Trying Book Used Process Grief Written Subjects Huge One Way Odd Grieving Over It Maps Ritual Spatial

Author:John Darnielle

“I just love the fact that that's the way life is. When something horrible happens, you do find yourself laughing in weird places in the midst of grief and crying in the supermarket when you see a cereal that somebody used to eat. There's just no way of guarding yourself one way or another. Everybody grieves differently, and there's no right or wrong way.”

Way Facts Happens Life Is Used Grief Laughing Cry Horrible One Way Grieving Midst Finding Yourself Wrong Way Supermarkets Cereal Guarding Weird Places

Author:Susan Sarandon

“I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!”

I Can Whole Used Joy Grief Break Feet Pool Liquor Pebbles Wade

Book:Dickinson

Source: Dickinson

“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”

Used Grief Sorrow Weight Burden Bereavement Anchors Grief And Healing Griefing Truth About Forever

Book:The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.”

People Care Used Fall Grief Trouble Evolution Victory Lessons Cost Thousand Soldier Communism Chinese Flats Efficient Bugs Alliances Chins Adapted Hegemony Ammo

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Zach walked away, but I stood there for a long time, wondering if I should go to my mother; if I should go to my friends; but instead I slipped into the corridors I hadn't used in months, pushed my way through cobwebs and darkness, trying to walk away from the tears that burned hot down my cheeks, because maybe I didn't want to admit weakness; maybe I wanted to wallow in my solitude and grief. Or maybe crying is like everything else we do—it's best if you don't get caught.”

Ifs Way Want Should Trying Long Wanted Used Mother Walks Grief Wonder Darkness Cry Tears Months Solitude Long Time Weakness My Friends Hot Caught My Way Cheeks Burned Corridors Cobwebs

Author:Ally Carter

“I loved you!” he yelled. He jumped up out of his chair so quickly I never saw it coming. “I loved you, and you destroyed me. You took my heart and ripped it up. You might as well have staked me!” The change in his features also caught me by surprise. His voice filled the room. So much grief, so much anger. So unlike the usual Adrian. He strode toward me, hand clasped over his chest. “I. Loved. You. And you used me the whole time.”

Wells Heart Whole Hands Might Used Voice Rooms Grief Saws My Heart Filled Surprise Caught Destroyed Features Chairs Chests Usual Ripped I Loved You

Author:Richelle Mead

“The way I pictured it, all this grief would be like a winter night when you're standing outside. You'll warm up once you get used to the cold. Except after you've been out there for awhile, you feel the warmth draining out of you and you realize the opposite is happening; you're getting colder and colder, as the body heat you brought outside with you seeps out of your skin. Instead of getting used to it, you get weaker the longer you endure it.”

Way Feels Body Would Be Used Night Realizing Grief Cold Happenings Standing Skins Opposites Endure Winter Warm Heat Warmth Draining Winter Night Body Heat

Author:Rob Sheffield

“That's one of the things Yardem used to tell me that actually made sense. He said that you don't go through grief like it was a chore to be done. You can't push and get finished quicker. The best you can do is change the way you always do, and the time comes when you aren't the same person who was in pain.”

Way Persons Made Said Done Pain Used Can Do Grief Finished Chores

Author:Daniel Abraham

“I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like I was falling, falling into nothing, how it clenched me up and made me want to weep, made me actually weep.”

Want Feels Made Remember Used Fall Felt Loss Grief Ache

Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go

Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go

“I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.”

Source: Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)

“Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.”

Believe Care Death Used Causes Grief Accepting Dying Reputation Bereavement Rules For Radicals

Author:Saul Alinsky

“I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the tissues, until I realized that passing a person a tissue may be just another way to shut them down, to take them out of their experience of sadness and grief. Now I just listen. When they have cried all they need to cry, they find me there with them.”

Way Needs May Persons Used Grief Sadness Cry Listening I Realized Passing Passings Cried Another Way Find Me Old Days Just Listen Tissues

Book:Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition

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