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“What it boils down to is that each person has his own ways of coping with trauma and grief, with the pain of life, and astrology was one of mine. Don't criticize me, I wanted to say, until you have stood in my place. This helped me. Nobody was hurt by it.”

Way Persons Wanted Pain Hurt Grief Mines Trauma Criticize Astrology Coping

Book:My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan

Source: My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan

“In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.”

Knows Trying Ends Body Wanted Grief Cry

Book:The Illusion of Separateness

Source: The Illusion of Separateness

“I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I'm not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.”

Knows Humans Wanted Grief Study Behavior Human Behavior Psychologist Psychoanalysis Bipolar

Author:Kevin Gates

“I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.”

People Children Wanted Parent Grief Gay Gay People

Author:Andrew Solomon

“My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.”

Firsts Wanted Causes Process Grief Essence Weight Guilt Misery Burden Melancholy Rejected Homosexuality Outlook Despised Deviate

Author:Quentin Crisp

“I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children.”

Children Has Beens Wanted Loss Grief Stage My Children Shock Disbelief

Author:Elin Nordegren

“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

“She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.”

People Want Should Wanted Grief Capable

Book:The Scarlet Letter - Second Edition: A Romance

Source: The Scarlet Letter - Second Edition: A Romance

“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 still loved Marc desperately and couldn’t imagine life without him. Jace was…something else. Something I could feel but couldn’t articulate. Something I wanted, and hadn’t been able to resist in my grief-weakened state. He was something that would have to wait.”

Feels Stills States Able Wanted Waiting Grief Imagine Jace

Author:Rachel Vincent

“That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.”

Hard Wanted Language Grief Grieving Spokes Hard Things

Book:The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusion, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.”

Source: The Complete Short Stories, Essays, and a Play