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"Grief does not change you. It reveals you."

"Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss."

"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."

"The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity."

"There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion."

"I called Isaac, who cursed life and the universe and God Himself and who said where are the goddamned trophies to break when you need them, and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters's death was Augustus Waters."

"Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?"
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"Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been."


"By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown."


"Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using."


"Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb."
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