"He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives."

Grief, Healing, Acceptance, Change

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"He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives."

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"Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't."

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"Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life."

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"No. Really. I've thought about it a lot. You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if they're not living, breathing people any more. It's not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you, and makes you want to cry in the wrong places and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who are still alive when the person you love is dead. It's just something you learn to accommodate. Like adapting around a whole. I don't know. It's like you become... a doughnut instead of a bun."

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"And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to."

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"The world is full of 'friends' of suicide victims thinking 'if I had only made that drive over there, I could have done something."

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"Long after the other voices had dropped away, Sam kept howling, very soft and slow.When he finally fell silent, the night felt dead. Sitting was intolerable. I stood up, paced, clenched and unclenched my hands into fists. Finally I took the guitar that Sam had played and I screamed and smashed it into pieces on Dad's desk."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"It's been six months since she died. But Ove still inspects the whole house twice a day to feel the radiators and check that she hasn't sneakily turned up the heating."

Fredrik Backman, Swedish Author

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"Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more."

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"Of course it's heavier, he thought. It's got my grief in it. I pull it along with me everywhere I go, so I do."

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"There were moments when it honestly seemed as if the world were conspiring against her."

Adversity

"So, it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him- go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again, if I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out."

Commitment

"I want all of you, forever everyday. You and me everyday."

Romance

"I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want."

Understanding

"That's good. And speaking of spelling, tell me -- do you wrap your head in a towel after you shower?"

Humor

"Having kids means taking care of them, raising them, loving and supporting them, and none of those things have anything to do with who makes them one night in the bedroom or the experience of being pregnant."

Parenting

"What can you do when you're condemned to a place where every choice seems wrong - even the one you promised your lover you'd make?"

Morality

"When I look in the mirror, I know I'm looking at someone who isn't sure she deserves to be loved at all."

Identity

"The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable."

Present

"I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was telling the truth. "It's just that I don't belong here."He gave her a meloncholy smile. "If it's any consolation, when I was growing up, I didn't feel like I belonged here, either. I dreamed about going to New York. But it's strange, because when I finally escaped this place, I ended up missing it more than I thought I would. There's something about the ocean that just calls to me."

Belonging