“we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“First understand that there is no ‘correct’ way to grieve. Grieving is not something you should be expected to simply ‘get over.”— Seven Ponds, sevenponds.com
“Acceptance is not necessarily a permanent state, nor does it mark a return to happiness or your pre-loss state of mind. The death of your loved one has changed the circumstances of your world, and acceptance marks your understanding of this, as well as your willingness to move forward in life withou…”— Seven Ponds, sevenponds.com
“The emotions you experience are normal, even if they aren't what you expected. Allow yourself to feel each as it arises and understand that it will take some time to adjust to your new circumstances.”— Seven Ponds, sevenponds.com
“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.”— William Makepeace Thackeray, amazon.com
“When you break up with someone, and I’m not talking casual breakups here, it’s hard to take the sudden absence of such an important person in your life. It reminded me of when I’d stopped going to school and the weird uneasy feeling I’d gotten afterward, like I was forgetting to do something. My lif…”— Lish McBride, amazon.com
“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.”— Elizabeth Edwards, npr.org
“We try our hardest to force life into things that must die and that's what hurts the most.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“As you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends--hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“There is a hole in everything and I find you there, smiling like you don't have anywhere else to be.”— Caitlyn Siehl, amazon.com
“If there is any possible consolation in the tragedy of losing someone we love very much, it's the necessary hope that perhaps it was for the best.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“There’s nothing you’re ever going to say that’s going to make anybody happy when they’re feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love.”— Richard Brautigan, amazon.com
“But I don't want to carry on like everything is fine The longer we ignore it all the more that we will fight Please don't fall apart I can't face your breaking heart I'm trying to be brave Stop asking me to stay”— Adele, youtube.com
“I was wondering if after all these years you'd like to meet To go over everything They say that time's supposed to heal ya But I ain't done much healing”— Adele, youtube.com
“You left with no goodbye, Not a single word was said, No final kiss to seal any sins, I had no idea of the state we were in, I know I have a fickle heart and a bitterness, And a wandering eye, and heaviness in my head.”— Adele, amazon.com