“It's so cruel... that grief comes part and parcel with love. It's just so unfair.”
― Adelaide
― Adelaide
“Pain is pain is pain...no matter how large or small your problems, your losses, your wounds--they are yours. And you're allowed to feel them. The hardest loss will always be your own.”
― Adelaide
― Adelaide
“Because if we knew, if we honestly knew the price of love was grief, we'd never do it.”
― Adelaide
― Adelaide
“And in that moment, you realize how little control you have over your own destiny. From the time you're born, you have no control; you can't choose your parents, and, unless you're suicidal, you can't choose your death. The only thing you can do is choose the person you love, be kind to others, and make your brutally short stint on earth as pleasant as possible.”
― Before We Were Strangers
― Before We Were Strangers
“The sadness will last forever. It wasn’t a lie. There was sadness, and there was despair, and there was pain—but there was also laughter, and joy, and relief. There was never grief without love or love without grief, and I chose to think that my aunt lived because of them.”
― The Seven Year Slip
― The Seven Year Slip
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