Luli Yellowlees

“You still miss her?"

"Yes, I still miss her frightfully. It's two years since she died, but I haven't got used to doing without her. I still keep on wanting to tell her things."

"I know the feeling," said Louise. "I miss Mummy like that. It comes and goes. Sometimes I forget about it—and then the tide rises and I'm almost drowned. It happens quite suddenly—I never know when it's going to happen.”
― D.E. Stevenson, Bel Lamington

“It is, after all, hard to know what to choose when you aren’t really sure what you want.”
― William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

“I won't be bringing flowers,
They cannot reach you where you are.
Ashes would return into ashes,
But the ashes won't bring you home.
I won't be bringing flowers,
They'd wither away and die.
I'd bring instead some butterflies,
To help you reach the skies.”
― Jocelyn Soriano, Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief

“Grief isn’t something you fix; it’s something you honour. There’s no flash sale, weekend retreat or quickly found solution. We often dream of a comeback from grieving, when the healthiest thing we can do is aim to come-through, by waking up every day and honouring our relationship with loss and how we feel in each moment that follows.”
― Addison Brasil, First Year of Grief Club : A Gift From A Friend Who Gets It