I hadn’t realized I was made of glass until now, when it all gives way and the tears come, tears like nothing I’ve felt before, a tsunami of grief
“because everybody left eventually, but it hurt less. That was what life was, choosing the way that hurt less.”
― The Reappearance of Rachel Price
― The Reappearance of Rachel Price
“in living our one life, we are here to love and lose. No one knows why. It is just so. If we commit to loving, we will inevitably know loss and grief. If we try to avoid loss and grief, we will never truly love. Yet powerfully and mysteriously, knowing both love and loss is what brings us fully and deeply alive.”
― It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
― It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
“in living our one life, we are here to love and lose. No one knows why. It is just so. If we commit to loving, we will inevitably know loss and grief. If we try to avoid loss and grief, we will never truly love.”
― It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
― It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
“When the sky opens you got a better chance of seeing heaven,”
― All the Colours of the Dark
― All the Colours of the Dark
“I was forced to acknowledge too late, much too late, that I too had loved, that I was capable of suffering and that I was human after all.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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