“I’m grateful for these tears. I’m grateful I was vulnerable enough to love him. I would do it all over again, even knowing I would lose them eventually… Being vulnerable is a risk. Love– romantic, platonic, familial, it doesn’t matter what kind of love– is a risk. Because… they can leave. They can die or be hurt or simply walk away. But a moment of that love, child, it’s worth it. If you have a second, a minute, a month, a year, a decade with that person? You count yourself lucky. You can use that love and the lessons it taught you to plant more seeds for love. You can live off that love for a lifetime.”
Category Archives: Death
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
“Death’s greatest power is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people want to stop living.”
After You by Jojo Moyes
“I’m not sure you ever do [get over someone dying.] No. Really. I’ve thought about this a lot. You learn to live with it, with them. Because they do stay with you, even if they’re not living, breathing people anymore. It’s not the same crushing grief you felt at first, the kind that swamps you and makes you want to cry in the wrong places and get irrationally angry with all the idiots who are still alive when the person you love is dead. It’s just something you learn to accommodate. Like adapting around a hole. I don’t know. It’s like you become… a doughnut instead of a bun.”
After You by Jojo Moyes
“How could I explain… the way I felt that no other person in the world had ever understood me like he did or ever would again? How could she understand that losing him was like having hole shot straight through me, a painful, constant reminder, an absence I could never fill?”
Juliet by Anne Fortier
“Death [of a woman] turns all men into great lovers. Would that they were equally ardent while the lady was still alive!”
The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope by Rhonda Riley
“Grief is a powerful river in flood. It cannot be argued or reasoned or wrestled down to an insignificant trickle. You must let it take you where it is going. When it pulls you under, all you can do is keep your eyes open for rocks and fallen trees, try not to panic, and stay face up so you will know where the sky is. You will need that information later. Eventually, its waters calm and you will be on a shore far from where you began, raw and sore, but clean and as close to whole as you will ever be again.”
How to Love an American Man by Kristine Gasbarre
“The moment of mourning has passed. Now it’s time to be proud for having been his happiness.”
The Daily Coyote, Shreve Stockton
“I believe we can learn to use death, and let the gifts of the dead help us to become stronger. Our society responds to death by mourning, and usually, mourning is the stopping place. It is not the stopping place. I believe there is nourishment and strength to be found, if only we were not so afraid of it.”
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