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“The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you left behind want to stop living.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

tags: death-of-a-loved-one

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“Memories is all that you have, which help you survive the storms and struggles of your daily life after you lose someone!”
― Nikita Dudani

tags: death-and-love, death-of-a-loved-one, loss, loss-of-family, loss-of-love, memories, memories-with-mom

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“The graveyard is an everlasting home of every man.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

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“I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungry I'd be one day to look inside it.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

tags: fathers, grief, memories, parents

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“What happens to the mind after bereavement makes no sense until later... what the mind does after losing one's father isn't just to pick new fathers from the world, but pick new selves to love them with.”
― Helen Macdonald

tags: bereavement, fathers, fathers-and-daughters

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