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“Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her.”
― The Mermaid Chair
― The Mermaid Chair
“Love is an engraved invitation to grief.”
― Open Me
― Open Me
“Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.”
― In the Country of Men
― In the Country of Men
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth
“Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.”
― Xenocide
― Xenocide
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