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“You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
“In a sea of trees turned into a sea of total strangers, familiar means everything.”
― If You Find Me
― If You Find Me
“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“We make attachments to what's familiar. We find the beauty, even in the lack. That's human. We make the best of what we're given.”
― If You Find Me
― If You Find Me
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