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Fortesa Latifi, from The Truth About Grief.

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ray at 14 by Dorianne Laux

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Carrying grief at a young age means every single milestone and happy moment is forever tainted a little grey.

Simply because you are not here to celebrate it with me.

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– Noor Unnahar, Instagram account "noor_unnahar"

[TEXT ID: / [Lemons] / My father's mother loved lemons. Years after her passing, / we run out of everything, but never / lemons. / Nothing else shelters grief / better than memory. / It's my father way of saying, / even in your absence, you will be / cared by me. / END ID]

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Ellen Bass,  "The Thing Is"

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I am not going to make my grief small and palatable. My love wasn't small either.

- Sakshi Narula

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I was driving home today at the edge of dark, the time perfectly in between night and day. The sun was setting, and it was the most beautiful sunset I had seen in a while, so many bright shades of pink and purple and orange like tie-dye in the sky. There were no other cars on the road, just me, and it was so peaceful. All I could think about was you. I could almost see you sitting there in the passenger seat, smiling at me. I think you were there with me, probably wearing a tie-dye t-shirt to match the sunset. I could feel it. I bet you see tie-dye sunsets like that every day where you are. I bet you helped paint this one just for me.

tie-dye sunsets // m.e.k.

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I hope you find someone you can’t live without. I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it’s like to have to try and live without them.

Kiera Cass (via surqrised)

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Yi Lei, Mother

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I hear you sometimes. I just know it’s you. Even if it isn’t direct, it’s a feeling so present that I can’t ignore it, even if I tried. Even though you’re not with me, at least not physically, I can hear you, I can see you; and sometimes, that almost feels like enough. Sometimes when it feels like you’re light years away, you remind me of your light. A light so captivating, so deserving of the attention that it gets. A light that simply cannot be ignored.

sean (I wish you were still alive)

-vm

(via writingboutyou)

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—  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 – 1950)

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There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realize that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realize, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, though you can put your hand out to where things were and feel that tense, shining dullness of the space where the memories are.

Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk (via surqrised)