"Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust."

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"Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust."

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"Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust."

Margery Allingham, English Writer

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C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye."

Kristin Cashore, American Author

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"And yet... you wouldn't want it to stop hurting... you wouldn't want to forget your little mother even if you could."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"I sat up and wiped my eyes, cursing the damned faeries and their eternal war. It seemed there was never enough time. Time to dance, or talk, or laugh, or even mourn the passing of a friend. Slipping off my corsage, I laid it on Ironhorse's cold metal shoulder, wanting him to have something natural and beautiful in this lifeless place.Goodbye, Ironhorse."

Julie Kagawa, American Author

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"I turned and faced the Olympians."We need a shroud," I announced, my voice cracking. "A shroud for the son of Hermes."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"We need a shroud. A shroud for the son of Hermes."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"The loss of my child broke my spirit."

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"To re-live these characters would be wonderful, because I know when the show ends it will be huge mourning process."

Gillian Anderson, American Actress

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"He did touch people's lives, the lives of strangers, in an entirely unanticipated way. It was they who really mourned him - or what they thought was him - with a grief that was no less sharp for not being intimate with its object."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

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