“He was a grim testament to a truth I knew but refused to acknowledge: that it was possible to suffer devastating, incomprehensible loss and continue to live, to breathe, to pump blood around your body and supply oxygen to your brain.”
― House of Hollow
― House of Hollow
“I’ve lived a charmed life. Maybe I never understood that until now.”
― Before We Were Yours
― Before We Were Yours
“No one is the first person to whom bad things have happened. Functionality is not the problem. The problem is that our capacity to handle something shocking in the short term can make things indistinguishable in the long term.”
― Grief Is for People
― Grief Is for People
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“Understand this: death is not tragedy. Death removes us from pain. You see, pain abides in life. It lies in putting one foot after the other when every step brings the torment of loss.”
― Orphia and Eurydicius
― Orphia and Eurydicius
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