“I see a nutcracker in a store window display and want to throw the biggest rock at it I can find. I want to shatter the glass with my bare knuckles, to bleed all over the happiness. I want to stuff tinsel in the mouth of the nutcracker, to watch him destroy everything that is supposed to bring cheer…”— Ari Eastman, amazon.com
“Losing him was like having a hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“I'll be seeing you In all the old familiar places That this heart of mine embraces All day and through.”— Billie Holiday, youtube.com
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“Death is an Illusion. The soul never dies. We are all souls having a human experience, not the other way around.”— James Van Praagh, healyourlife.com
“My loved one is an eternal, immortal soul who continues to live in another dimension more beautiful than the one in which I currently exist.”— Much Loved, muchloved.com
“Today, 40,000 parents have lost their children. Tomorrow, another 40, 000 parents will lose their children. I am not alone in pain. Departure from the physical body is a natural part of life on earth.”— Much Loved, muchloved.com
“[After losing a loved one] you must with emotional energy and reinvest it in other relationships. Many people misunderstand this task and believe it means forgetting about their loved one. They believe that this would be dishonoring their loved one's memory. This task is simply a continuation of the…”— Much Loved, muchloved.com
“Accept that loss is a basic part of our life cycle. Whatever is born must die. Whatever grows must decay. These are universal laws. We tend to forget that these physical bodies are mortal. Everything we see around us will one-day decay and cease to be.”— Much Loved, muchloved.com
“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have seen that look on their own faces. I have noticed it on my face and I notice it now on others. The look is one of extreme vulnerability, nakedness, openness. It is the look of someone who walks from…”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com