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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

“My body is not my own any more. They have stamped their names all over it.”
― Louise O'Neill, Asking For It

“Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work.” —Dr. John Trainer”
― Mitch Albom, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

“Don’t fear the dark places in your mind, otherwise rage will blacken your sight.”
― Abdulrazak Gurnah, Gravel Heart