"When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said goodbye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them.Each funeral was a funeral for all of us.We lived and died together.All of us laughed when they lowered my grandmother into the ground.And all of us laughed when they covered her with dirt.And all of us laughed as we walked and drove and rode our way back to our lonely, lonely houses."

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"When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said goodbye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them.Each funeral was a funeral for all of us.We lived and died together.All of us laughed when they lowered my grandmother into the ground.And all of us laughed when they covered her with dirt.And all of us laughed as we walked and drove and rode our way back to our lonely, lonely houses."

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"Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly."

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"I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone."

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"Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged another pat of me into that world."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems."'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage,Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more."

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"When the people whom we love the most leave us, we start learning to live with the shadows they have left inside us."

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"Well," she said, "how can I be sure there aren't invisible people in the world? Scientists didn't believe in the mountain gorilla for hundreds of years. And now look. So if scientists can be wrong, then all of us can be wrong. I mean, what if all those invisible people ARE scientists? Think about that one."

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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."

"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

"And no one ever told me about the laziness of grief. Except at my job--where the machine seems to run on much as usual--I loath the slightest effort. Not only writing but even reading a letter is too much."

"Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly."

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"Some grief shows much of love,But much of grief shows still some want of wit."

"Once upon a time, you dragged a part of me into the world of the dead, and now Naoko has dragged another pat of me into that world."

"She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more."

"When the people whom we love the most leave us, we start learning to live with the shadows they have left inside us."

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"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."

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"I'm quite aware of my differences. I wouldn't classify them as weird."

"Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads."

"Here's a fact: Some people want to live moreThan others do."