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    Anne Lamott
    “You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
    ― Anne Lamott
    tags: grief, loss, recovery
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    Cassandra Clare
    “The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: city-of-bones, jace-wayland
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “How is it that the world keeps going, breathing in and out unchanged, while in my soul there is a permanent scattering?”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Never' has come to say. 'Never' feels so unfairly punitive. For the rest of my life, I will live with my hands outstretched for things that are no longer there.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
    tags: grief
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “A friend sends me a line from my novel: 'Grief was the celebration of love, those who could feel real grief were lucky to have loved.' How odd to find it so exquisitely painful to read my own words.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
    tags: grief
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Another revelation: how much laughter is a part of grief. Laughter is tightly braided into our family argot, and now we laugh remembering my father, but somewhere in the background there is a haze of disbelief. The laughter trails off. The laughter becomes tears and becomes sadness and becomes rage. I am unprepared for my wretched, roaring rage. In the face of this inferno that is sorrow, I am callow and unformed.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “Does love bring, even if unconsciously, the delusional arrogance of expecting never to be touched by grief?”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “I back away from condolences. People are kind, people mean well, but knowing this does not make their words rankle less.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “It is an act of resistance and refusal: grief telling you it is over and your heart saying it is not; grief trying to shrink your love to the past and your heart saying it is present.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “I am nothing.
    I'll never be anything.
    I couldn't want to be something.
    Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa
    tags: dreams, nothingness
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Hope, in reality, is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: hope
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    Nikos Kazantzakis
    “I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
    ― Nikos Kazantzakis
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    Madeline Miller
    “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: quotes
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    Madeline Miller
    “In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: love
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    Madeline Miller
    “I have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S.
    "Go," she says. "He waits for you."

    In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
    ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
    tags: achilles, afterlife, death, greek-mythology, grief, love, mythology, patroclus
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: clary, jace, sarcasm
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    Cassandra Clare
    “Declarations of love amuse me. Especially when unrequited.”
    ― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
    tags: clary-fray, jace-wayland, love
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    Euripides
    “Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
    ― Euripides, Medea
    tags: hate, incurable, love, retaliation, revenge, wounds
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    Euripides
    “The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
    Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”
    ― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays
    tags: anger, bitterness, love
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    John Green
    “I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

    "Augustus," I said.

    "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: doomed, inevitable, love, oblivion, pleasure, simple
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    Nikita Gill
    “The saddest word
    in the whole wide world
    is the word almost.

    He was almost in love.
    She was almost good for him.
    He almost stopped her.
    She almost waited.
    He almost lived.
    They almost made it.”
    ― Nikita Gill
    tags: almost, poetry, sad, sadness, sorrow
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: power, sex
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    Grace Willows
    “You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees.”
    ― Grace Willows, To Kiss a King
    tags: adventure, alpha, alpha-male, amour, betrayal, books, choice, comedy, danger, daydream, daydreams, deceipt, deception, desire, drama, e-book, erotic, everlasting, exotic, fear, forever-love, fun, guns, hope, hot, hot-intrigue, killer, king, life-changing, longing, love, love-at-first-sight, lovers, marriage, memories, murder, palace, passion, passionate, prince, proposal, psychotic, queen, rescue, revenge, romance, romantic, royal, royalty, scary, sex, sexy, soul-mate, soul-searching, sunset, survival, terror, timeless
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    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Saints and sinners are chasing the very same thing: happiness. What differs are the vehicles with which they do the chasing.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: happiness, immortality, morality, pessimism, saint, saints, saints-and-sinners, sinner, sinners, the-pursuit-of-happiness
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    Julia Gfrörer
    “There's nothing holy about suffering. The stories of the martyrs illustrate their faith because in spite of what they endured they did not suffer. A saint always dies smiling.”
    ― Julia Gfrörer, Laid Waste
    tags: black-death, black-plague, bubonic-plague, holy-suffering, martyr, martyrdom, martyrs, saint, saints, suffering
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    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
    in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
    tags: love, poetry
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    Chelsea Hodson
    “Suffering feels religious if you do it right.”
    ― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
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    Chelsea Hodson
    “I've had enemies so intense that it felt romantic, so mutual it felt like love.”
    ― Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
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  • #29
    N.K. Jemisin
    “We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”
    ― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
    tags: cruelty, gods, hubris, humanity
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  • #30
    Mary Doria Russell
    “Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.”
    ― Mary Doria Russell, Children of God
    tags: grief, love
    47 likes



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