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“Take the love you shared with me and spread it out with gladness my life will not have been in vain if you can fight the sadness Take the love my darling it’s yours to carry on grow that love forevermore and then I won’t be gone.”
― Donna Ashworth, Loss: Poems to better weather the many waves of grief

“Dying is only one thing to be sad about, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else”—”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“I like it better when my room is pitch black, when the dark is so thick it swallows me up and I feel as if I could drown in it.”
― Louise O'Neill, Asking For It

“The most precious thing you can give someone is your time, Chika, because you can never get it back. When you don’t think about getting it back, you’ve given it in love.”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family