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There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your hea...more

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What I think is that there is no perspective in grief, or in love. How can there be, when one person becomes the center of the universe - either becau...more

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I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

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When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit o...more

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You don't have to say I love you to say I love you.

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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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Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

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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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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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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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The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: ...more

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But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like a swimming pool without water. The foundation's t...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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Words, he knew, could scar.