grief
People got such a charge from seeing their names in print. Proof of existence. I could picture a squabble of ghosts ripping through piles of newspapers. Pointing at a name on the page. See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was.
Gillian Flynn • Sharp Objects: A Novel
but my mother would not be distracted from her grief. To this day it remains a hobby.
Gillian Flynn • Sharp Objects: A Novel
We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago, when we were little and had no voice to speak the heart’s longing.
bell hooks • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
She said, “Just a bit of elder advice: The weight of secrets and deaths continue to grow as you age. So plan more quiet time for yourself. You’ll need it.” She continued: “About deaths: find people who get it and talk to them. We can’t get through it without each other, and folks outside our world don’t have a freaking clue what we’re going
... See moreLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs
Accepting death with love means we embrace the reality of the unexpected, of experiences over which we have no control.
bell hooks • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
Grief is most often unrelenting when individuals are not reconciled to the reality of loss.
bell hooks • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
It is far easier to talk about loss than it is to talk about love. It is easier to articulate the pain of love’s absence than to describe its presence and meaning in our lives.
bell hooks • All About Love: New Visions (Love Song to the Nation Book 1)
What was it like growing up next to the room of a dead sister you never met?
Gillian Flynn • Sharp Objects: A Novel
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