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"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."

"I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness."

"I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. I'd say that for 3 months, you're going to feel worse than you've ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isn't so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and get sad about it. And you still miss them all the time."

"Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both."
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"You want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you're wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don't seem to care..."

"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."

"Your moods and colors are my climate, not the changing face of the sky."

"I keep coming back to certain books, and you-to try to find myself again."
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