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“Each that we lose takes a part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.”

Stills Night Loses Loss Moon Tides Crescent

Book:The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

“Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.”

Men Has Beens Beautiful Night Loss Sky Moon Anxiety Shining Disaster Mars Splendid Trinity Venus

Author:Janet Flanner

“When you've cooked the marrow of the sun and moon, The pearl is so bright you don't worry about poverty.”

Loss Poverty Worry Sun Moon Disaster Pearls Marrow

Author:Sun Bu'er

“Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.”

Loss Sea Kings Moon Mouths Rose Seven Monsters Over It Thieves Pearls Jewelry Marcos Polo Marco Polo

Book:Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde

Source: Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde

“Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.”

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.”

Years Stills Loss Morning Gone Moon Ten Phones Reaching Gravity

Author:Mary Karr

“And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending wracking waves of hurt through my limbs and head - but it was manageable. I could live through it. I didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it.”

Feels Enough Pain Found Strong Felt Hurt Loss Bears Moon Wave Chests Limbs Strong Enough New Moon Manageable

Author:Stephenie Meyer