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Helen Macdonald
“There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]”
Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

Jandy Nelson
“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.”
Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

Alison Bechdel
“Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.”
Alison Bechdel

Ava Dellaira
“I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter.”
Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

Morgan Matson
“I tried to shut out the feelings that were hurting my heart with a thousand tiny pinpricks, which was somehow worse that having it broken all at once.”
Morgan Matson, Second Chance Summer
tags: grief

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