Jen Mech

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“Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.”
― Carrie Jones, Captivate

tags: bereavement, loss, mourning

364 likes

“my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping
but
I shall go on living.”
― Pablo Neruda

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“Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.”
― Maria V. Snyder, Storm Glass

tags: bereavement, death, grief

455 likes

“How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”
― Jodi Picoult, Mercy

tags: bereavement, casket, death, funeral, heart, loss, love, mourning

584 likes

“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

tags: bereavement, broken-hearted, heartbreak

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