Cherri Roemeling

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“The death of a beloved is an amputation.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“Don’t take the wisdom for those in authority for granted. Challenge it in your heart. Power can be missused and can also corrupt. Sometimes the bravest thing we can do is admit we are not strong enough. Let those who love us shoulder the burden and support them too. As a wiseman once told me be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.”
― Grantchester

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed