Jen

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“As the vicar said 'in sure and certain hope of eternal life' you turned to me,
'I don't want sure and certain hope, I want sure and certain, Bee.'
At your funeral I wanted sure and certain too. But even the church can only hope, not promise, that the end of human life is happy ever after.”
― Rosamund Lupton, Sister

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence.”
― R. Arnold

“When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...”
― Rosamund Lupton, Sister