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“But knowing something and believing are two very different things.”
― Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

“In the days that followed I thought about grief; how nothing and nobody can prepare you for it. People tell you their stories but until you experience it for yourself you can't possibly understand. There's no going around it. Or under or over it. You've got to go through it. It will hit you in waves so enormous that the you are smacked against the shore. It will fabric of your life, so that everything you do is stained by it; every moment, good or bad, is steeped in sadness for a while. Even the nice moments, the achievements and successes, are permeate very tinged with the knowledge that someone something is missing. And the first time that you smile or laugh, you catch yourself, because happiness feels so unfamiliar.”
― Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

“I loathe the assumption that I will ‘come to my senses’ someday or — worse still — that my status as non-mother means I’m somehow lacking in emotional range.”
― Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

“A big thing happened,' she goes on, 'and it doesn't matter who's right or who's wrong, this has changed things. They may never be the same again.”
― Hazel Hayes, Out of Love