Kaitlin Wilkinson

“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.”
― John Banville, The Sea

“That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

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

“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.”
― Pablo Neruda