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Your grief is yours to process in your own time, in whatever way works for you. No one can tell you how to do that.

Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

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There was a part of me that felt, or maybe hoped, that after my mother died, I had absorbed her in some way, that she was a part of me now.

Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

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That was what I feared most: that he just wasn’t excited about us anymore—that something between us had altered irreversibly.

Laura Dave, London is the Best City in America

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There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right.

Jodi Picoult, Picture Perfect

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I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But, talking to you makes me feel like the fan's been turned off for a little bit. Like things could actually make sense. You completely unscatter me, and I appreciate that so much.

John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

Joyce Carol Oates, Faithless

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She remembered him smiling, and realized that time, that great old healer, had finally accomplished its work, and now, across the years, the face of love no longer stirred up agonies of grief and bitterness. Rather, one was left feeling simply grateful. For how unimaginably empty the past would be without him to remember.

Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers

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Bad things can happen, terrible things. You can lose the people you love the most; you can lose homes, cars, antiques, hand-knotted silk rugs that cost five figures; you can discover that the very life you’re living is a terrific lie. And despite this, despite all this, the sun will continue to rise.

Elin Hilderbrand, Troubles in Paradise

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How was I supposed to keep living in this town when everything I saw reminded me of someone I'd lost?

Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

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Every time I remember that my mother is dead, it feels like I’m colliding with a wall that won’t give. There’s no escape, just a hard surface that I keep ramming into over and over, a reminder of the immutable reality that I will never see her again.

Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

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Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

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We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.

Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

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Grief is tremendous, but love is bigger. You are grieving because you loved truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of death.

Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough

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When someone you love dies, you don't just lose them in the present or in the past. You lose the future you should have had, and might have had, with them. They are missing from all the life that was to be.

Megan Devine, It's OK That You're Not OK

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I was realizing that it was pretty terrible to be sitting in silence with someone who you always used to have something to say to.

Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

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I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungry I'd be one day to look inside it.

David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

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Jealousy is showing us what traits we desire in others or what we want for ourselves in our own lives. Pay attention. Jealousy is a teacher.

Dr. Nicole LePera