#grief

And this evening when I close my eyes against the darkness and think about her, I'll imagine iridescent wings fluttering, if only for a moment, against cloudless blue skies. ↗

— Nancy Stephan

#grief #death

Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was the most bewildering and remarkable of all. Whenever Bundle separated again, Po was left with an ache of sadness that reminded the ghost of the body it had left behind. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#afterlife #death #ghost #grief #loss

Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation. ↗

— Martha Beck

#anger #children #grief #guilt #out

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense. ↗

— Joan Didion

#crazy #grief #happens #make #people

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain. ↗

— Aberjhani

#despair #grief #national-poetry-month #pain #peace-movement

No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#grief

My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#grief

The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it. ↗

— Rachel Field

#artists #grief #joy #life #life-and-living

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#guilt #guilt

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#healing #magnus-bane #time #will-herondale #grief