Kathy Ritter

“You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.”
― Eloisa James, Duchess by Night

“If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don’t — if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live — well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease.
We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough

“I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.'
It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.”
― Mark Twain

“It’s ironic that when I was alive, all I thought about was death.”
― Loretta Ellsworth