"I can't remember how to cry."

Grief, Emotion, Loss, Silence

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"We need never be ashamed of our tears."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Sometimes, somehow...I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,that mourns over terrible great sin done by men."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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"The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was."

John Green, American Author

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"Ithink we all experience the same thing. We resent thethought that anything can please us when someone we loveis no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almostfeel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when wefind our interest in life returning to us."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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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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"Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren's will be. But we learn to live in that love."

Jonathan Safran Foer, American Novelist

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"Today is the anniversary of my husband's death," Maria announced. It was a dramatic statement, but the occasion seemed to demand it. "And I am going to leave."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

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"When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, youhave plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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"Like the coffin was settling down for a long, long nap, for a forever nap."

Death

"He sang 'Stairway to Heaven' in four different languages but never knew where that staircase stood."

Ignorance

"[Or perhaps my friends should have realized that they shouldn't have left behind the FRICKING REASON FOR THEIR PROTEST!And that thought just cracked me up.]It was like my friends had walked over the backs of baby seals in order to get to the beach where they could protest against the slaughter of baby seals."

Hypocrisy

"So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation."

Escape

"You're always making up stuff from the past, she said. "And the stuff you imagine is always better than the stuff that actually happened."

Memory

"Marie felt a sudden urge to smash the glass, break down the door, pull down the building. She wanted to tear apart the world. Mather would have never treated a white student that badly, nor would he have shut the door in the face of a man. At that moment, she wanted Dr. Mather to disappear. She wanted every white man to disappear. She wanted to burn them all down to ash and feast on their smoke. Hateful, powerful thoughts. She wondered what those hateful, powerful thoughts could create."

Injustice

"I got in a fight with my girlfriend," I said. "I was just driving around, blowing off steam, you know?"Well, you should be more careful where you drive," the officer said. "You're making people nervous. You don't fit the profile of the neighborhood."I wanted to tell him that I didn't fit the profile of the country but I knew it would just get me into trouble."

Injustice

"If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads."

Reading

"Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable."

Renewal

"But, in the Trump aftermath, I've measured the costsAnd benefits of loving those who don't loveStrangers. After all, I'm often the odd one-The strangest stranger-in any field or room."He was weird" will be carved into my tomb."

Alienation