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"Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?"
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"Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss."
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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."
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"All winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly... consuming..."
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"The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity."
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"The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns."
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"I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness."
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"Every one can master a grief but he that has it."
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"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."
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"Give sorrow words, the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break."
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"Sometimes, somehow...I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,that mourns over terrible great sin done by men."
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"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."
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"Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life."
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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."
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"Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board."
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"Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut."
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"There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover."
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"When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires."
Family
"It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it."
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"She wanted him to tell her that when you love someone so hard and so fierce, it was all right to do things that you knew were wrong."
Love
"Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child."
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