Our family histories are simply stories. They are myths we create about the people who came before us, in order to make sense of ourselves.

“Sometimes you can't begin to know everything you've lost until someone shows you what you might have had”
― Dance of Thieves
― Dance of Thieves

“But grief isn’t a competition. It’s not an identical pain that we all meet one day when death finds us. It’s a monster, personalized by our love and memories to devour us just so. Grief is suffering, tailored.”
― Bloodmarked
― Bloodmarked

“What truly ties us together is not blood but pain. When we love someone and lose them, that loss imprints itself on everyone else we love too.”
― Bloodmarked
― Bloodmarked

“It is always the gentle ones I fear for the most, those willing to bare their hearts, who grieve for others and feel happy for others’ happiness.”
― Legendborn
― Legendborn

“The unsaid thing about funerals is that directly after the communal mourning for someone you love, after everyone is gone and the connected grief dispersed, comes a solitude beyond imagining. A great, gaping nothing where a whole person and life and future used to be. The other side of a funeral is abyss.”
― Bloodmarked
― Bloodmarked

This group is for Haley's 23-24 AP Lang Class at Abington Friends School. ...more
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