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“The mere thought of losing her had been a drawn-out torture, she could see that on their faces, and she could only imagine what it would have done to them if she hadn't kept fighting - then or now. She was so glad she had, and so guilty that she almost hadn't.”

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Book:The Project

Source: The Project

“Some of our successes, or possessions, have pushed some people into starting their own businesses … and some into ending their own lives.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“my mother’s grief is something that lives in the nature of all things”

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Book:coming here to die: polyphonic grief poetry

Source: coming here to die: polyphonic grief poetry

“That night, you turn in your bed to watch the moon rise, and once more see what a small coin it is against the darkness, and how everything else is a mystery, and you know nothing at all except the moonlight is beautiful – white rivers running together along the bare boughs of the trees – and somewhere, for someone, life is becoming moment by moment unbearable. (From Beaver Moon – The Suicide of a Friend, in Twelve Moons by Mary Oliver)”

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Book:Twelve Moons

Source: Twelve Moons

“Grief, I learned, doesn’t care how hard you attempt to understand her. She doesn’t care if you are already depressed or suffer from suicidal ideation. She doesn’t wait for you to be ready, and the longer you defer her presence, the heavier her weight becomes.”

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Book:Where the River Flows: A memoir of loss, love & life with an Eating Disorder

Source: Where the River Flows: A memoir of loss, love & life with an Eating Disorder

“The eyes and the faces all turned themselves towards me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room.”

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Author:Sylvia Plath

“My breath catches when I reach the last page, the drawing of me. The girl I'm staring at is not me, but she is me. Her large eyes are focused away from the viewer, but there's something in them I don't immediately recognize: hope. Her posture looks straighter than mine, like she's stronger, more resilient.”

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Book:My Heart and Other Black Holes

Source: My Heart and Other Black Holes

“I looked in the mirror and realized that I was already dead. I let you kill me one piece at a time, starting when I was, what? Eight years old? Nine? You killed yourself and then you came after us.”

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Book:Twisted

Source: Twisted

“She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into a bottomless darkness from which there would be no return. If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?”

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Book:Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Playful footsteps, a child’s footsteps dance over mud and mire. What seems a horror to eyes of age, brings joy to a child’s fire.”

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Book:An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness

Source: An owl on the moon: A journal from the edge of darkness