Dawni

“For what is grief but love in disguise?”
― Ashley Ormon

“Sometimes the busier we allow ourselves to be, the more anxious and upset we are when alone again.”
― Maryanne Pope, A Widow's Awakening

“I close my eyes and listen as they circle the living room, making polite offerings. The house is full and yet quiet; it’s as if my ear is pressed against a wall, listening for some great truth. As if we’re underwater, our lives submerged. I imagine the furniture dunking and bobbing, floating and sinking in the sea as we try to arrange it on the ocean floor, one hopeless piece at a time.”
― Gurjinder Basran, Someone You Love Is Gone

“Before bereavement, one might think of 'death' but not yet of 'absence'. Absence is inconceivable, as long as there is presence. For the bereaved, the world is defined by absence.”
― Esther Kinsky