"Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her."

Grief, Acceptance, Emotion, Observation

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"Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her."

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"Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Grief,

"How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death? Where are the graces of my soul? Where are the sentiments of my heart? What have you done, oh, Father, What have you done with the garden that should have bloomed once, in this great wilderness here? Said louisa as she touched her heart."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Grief, Life, Soul, Heart, Emotion

"She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Grief, Sorrow, Silence, Heart, Emotion

"She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You won't find Prim." At her name, he perks up. Raises his flattened ears. Begins to meow hopefully. "Get out!" He dodges the pillow I throw at him. "Go away! There's nothing left for you here!" I start to shake, furious with him. "She's not coming back! She's never ever coming back here again!" I grab another pillow and get to my feet to improve my aim. Out of nowhere, the tears begin to pour down my cheeks. "She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Grief, Cat, Loss, Truth

"Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind, And makes it fearful and degenerate; Think therefore on revenge and cease to weep."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Grief, Revenge, Mind, Life

"If he goes and dies on me now, I know I'll go completely insane."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Grief, Fear, Loss, Mental Health

"But I have to confess, I'm glad you two had at least a few months of happiness together."I'm not glad," says Peeta. "I wish we had waited until the whole thing was done officially."This takes even Caesar aback. "Surely even a brief time is better than no time?"Maybe I'd think that, too, Caesar," says Peeta bitterly, "If it weren't for the baby."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Grief, Love, Regret, Loss, Time

"Grief is NOT a mental illness or an emotional disorder. Anyone who tells you otherwise has never experienced it for themselves."

Rebecca McNutt, Canadian Author

Grief, Validation, Emotion, Healing

"Alas, I had always loved sorrow and grief, but only for myself, for myself; for them I wept in my pity. I stretched out my arms to them in my despair, accusing, cursing, and despising myself. I told them that I had done all this, I alone, that I had brought them corruption, contagion, and lies!"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

Grief, Sorrow, Selfishness, Despair

"Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you."

Veronica Roth, American Author

Grief, Guilt, Pain, Emotion

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"Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. I thought of that policeman, Eddie Hazelwurst, saying I'd lowered myself to be in this house of colored women, and for the very life of me I couldn't understand how it had turned out this way, how colored women had become the lowest ones on the totem pole. You only had to look at them to see how special they were, like hidden royalty among us. Eddie Hazelwurst. What a shitbucket."

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"I can't explain that, except to say there's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at least, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance."

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"Mr. Vesey, though, he didn't like any kind of talk about heaven. He said that was the coward's way, pining for life in the hereafter, acting like this one didn't mean a thing. I had to side with him on that."

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"My mother's life was way too heavy for me."

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"I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn."

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"I realized that lacking the feminine, the language had communicated to me in subtle ways that women were nonentities, that women counted mostly as they related to men."

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"Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?"

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"I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart."

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"Nobody around here had ever seen a lady beekeeper till her. She liked to tell everybody that women made the best beekeepers, 'cause they have a special ability built into them to love creatures that sting. It comes from years of loving children and husbands."

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"I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one."

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