Natalie Nelson

“I finally understand why people get tattoos of those they have lost. The need to proclaim not merely the loss but the love, the continuity. I am my father’s daughter: it is an act of resistance and refusal, grief telling you that it is over and your heart saying that it is not, grief trying to shrink your love to the past and your heart saying that it is present.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

“It is idle to complain that words have more than one sense. A language is a living thing and words are bound to throw out new senses as a tree throws out new branches. It is not wholly a disadvantage since, in the act of disentangling these senses, we learn a great deal about the things involved which we might have otherwise have overlooked. What is disastrous is that any word should change its sense during a discussion without our being aware of the change.”
― C.S. Lewis, Miracles

“Whether you want it to or not, grief will lay bare who truly has the capacity to love you unconditionally and who doesn't have the capacity to support you for any number of reasons. Grief is a relationship crucible, and just as we can't control the various feelings that grief presents, we also cannot control how others respond to our feelings and our requests for help.”
― Marisa Renee Lee, Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

“We cannot know the price others pay for their good fortune.”
― Fonda Lee, Untethered Sky