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“I slept and I woke. She gave me a ring made from a leaf, a cluster of golden berries, a flower that opened and closed at the stroking of a finger.... And once, when I startled awake with my face wet and my chest aching, she reached out to lay her hand on top of mine. The gesture was so tentative, her expression so anxious, you would think she had never touched a man before. As if she was worried I might break or burn or bite. Her cool hand lay on mine for a moment, gentle as a moth. She squeezed my hand softly, waited, then pulled away. It struck me as odd at the time. But I was too clouded with confusion and grief to think clearly. Only now, looking back, do I realize the truth of things. With all the awkwardness of a young lover, she was trying to comfort me, and she didn't have the slightest idea how.”

Grief Comfort Despair Solace Inconsolable

Book:The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“Some days, she was pain incarnate. She would suffer all day and he would try to cheer her up and fail, and he felt like an irrelevant gnat.”

Pain Suffering Depression Mental Illness Helpless The Heavens Sandra Newman Inconsolable

Book:The Heavens

Source: The Heavens

“What would have comforted that writhing woman in a lost bed in the lost land of Strandhill I do not know. If I were a horse they would have shot me out of mercy.”

Suffering Alone Isolated Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture Inconsolable No Comfort

Book:The Secret Scripture

Source: The Secret Scripture

“Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who should be felt sorry for.”

“She won't forget or recover, she is inconsolable.”

Trauma Devastated Helen Oyeyemi White Is For Witching Inconsolable

Book:White Is for Witching

Source: White Is for Witching

“Gray. The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed closer than usually, as though they were phlegmatically observing my every movement with their apathetic emptily blue-less eyes; each tiny drop of hazy rain drifting around resembled transparent molten steel, the pavement looked like it was about to burst into disconsolate tears, even the air itself was gray, so ultimate and ubiquitous that colour was everywhere around me. Gray...”

Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice