“It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Everybody wants to talk about the politics of my grief but nobody wants to talk about my grief.”— Jejune Being, facebook.com
“I cannot imagine how we forgive ourselves for all of the things we didn’t say until it was too late.”— Doc Luben, doclubenpoetry.tumblr.com
“How can something be there and then just not be there? How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?”— Doc Luben, doclubenpoetry.tumblr.com
“I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“It comes over us that we shall never again hear the laughter of our friend, that this garden is forever locked against us. And at that moment begins our true grief.”— Lauren Groff, amazon.com
“Sometimes it’s 9am on a tuesday morning and you’re standing at the kitchen bench waiting for the toast to pop up And the smell of dusty sunlight and earl gray tea makes you miss them so much you don’t know what to do with your hands.”— Rosie Scanlan, watchkimwritethings.wordpress.com
“Grandma died in January 1942. No one knows how often I think of her and still love her.”— Ann Frank, amazon.com
“Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds—our stories about loneliness, rejection, grief, worthlessness—that we don’t realize they are in the past. They can’t hurt us anymore. We are protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened. It’s possible to come back. To see…”— Geneen Roth, amazon.com
“How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart, you begin to understand, there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep… that have taken hold.”— J. R. R. Tolkein, Frodo, amazon.com
“When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their live…”— Wendell Berry, amazon.com
“Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly—it’s the best advice ever…”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com