snowdrops

“Love and loss are inextricably linked, humbling and transforming, though we would rather have our loved one back. And no matter how much we resist rejoining life, the unseen teachers move through us, rearranging the chasm we are trying to climb out of as we feel ourselves being pulled between the plethora of life and the godforsaken emptiness. Out of unbearable grief, the heart like a phoenix mysteriously emerges in time from its own ash, one heart-giving at a time.”
― Mark Nepo, Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity

“Lucy said, looking at him now, “My point is that every person on this earth is so complicated. Bob, we’re also complicated, and we match up for a moment—or maybe a lifetime—with somebody because we feel that we are connected to them. And we are. But we’re not in a certain way because nobody can go into the crevices of another’s mind, even the person can’t go into the crevices of their own mind, and we live— all of us— as though we can.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything

“All these unrecorded lives, and people just live them.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything

“And though we have crashed, the harsh beauty of waves is that they always reform, gathering all they’ve been through to rise and crest again. Likewise, we can learn from what we’ve been through. We can expand again and open our minds and hearts. We can find our way back to kindness, if we dare to see each other in ourselves and accept the truth of what we’ve broken. Then, we can see what needs repair.”
― Mark Nepo, Surviving Storms: Finding the Strength to Meet Adversity