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It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A chil...more

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Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

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I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done...more

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If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

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If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details.

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How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

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Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aidbeing ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbellyof a h...more

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In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.

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Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a...more

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If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

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There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you...more

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See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a t...more

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Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgr...more

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Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

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If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?