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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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and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happ...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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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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You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it’s a catch-22: all of those thin...more

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Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

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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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I don't understand why people never say what they mean. It's like the immigrants who come to a country and learn the language but are completely baffl...more

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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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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

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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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I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyw...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