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Quotes About Grief

It makes me want to yell at the God that I wish I didn't believe in. For hogging him all to himself. I want to say, You greedy God. Give him back. I needed him here
~ Melina Marchetta
Because your grief at what you saw in those moments was too much for her to bear. Your pain made her weak. Her pain made you strong. Light and dark. Dark and light.
~ Melina Marchetta
They're all gone. Everyone's dead
~ Melina Marchetta
Death is death and loss is loss.
~ Melina Marchetta
Her eyes pools of absolute sorrow
~ Melina Marchetta
I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.
~ Melina Marchetta
It's kind of like a grief, and it's not a puzzle that you're supposed to work out on your own
~ Melina Marchetta
On Friday morning, when Eugenia leaves, Rosie bawls, trying to embrace her, but her grandmother isn't the type. The older woman just keeps on walking until she gets into the cab. It doesn't mean Eugenia feels less. Martha thinks it means that she feels more, but is worried about the dam that'll burst if she ever lets the emotion get the better of her.
~ Melina Marchetta
But no one came back
~ Melina Marchetta
The grief hits her hard one day. The way it can't be controlled. The way that yesterday can be good and so can the day before, and so can the week and fortnight before that, but then today comes and she's back to zero.
~ Melina Marchetta
He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.
~ Melina Marchetta
But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.
~ Melina Marchetta
Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?
~ Melina Marchetta
And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.
~ Melina Marchetta
We are all children until our fathers die.
~ Melissa Bank
but Ronan reckoned there was no medicine in existence that could truly take the edge off a person's grief, nor was there ever likely to be.
~ Unknown
Jenna nodded, wiping tears away with the back of her hand. She leaned toward David and they hugged again. "I was never okay with losing you," she said quietly. "You know that, right?
~ Unknown
I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face of the earth and she was never coming back.
~ Melissa Kantor
And suddenly I started to cry. Serious sobs, the kind where your stomach hurts and you can't breathe and there's snot running down your face. I was crying so hard I couldn't even mute the sounds I was making, and Luke put his hand on my back and I thought about how everyone would think that I was crying because of Stacy's fucking speech and I wanted to kill someone. I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could.
~ Melissa Kantor
You're an idiot," she whispered tearfully. Finally, he opened his eyes and stared up at her; by then, she had moved on to stroking his hair and crying. She sat beside him on the edge of the bed, trying very hard not to bump him or let her cold tears fall on his bare chest and arms. For a moment he blinked at her. Then he asked, "Are you dead too?
~ Melissa Marr
Do you like it?" Bananach whispered. "How they want to eat you alive? You took away the last king's mortal. You make the new king mourn for both his mortals.
~ Melissa Marr
One hundred eighty days, Aislinn. Seth's been gone for one hundred eighty days, and I've watched you try to pretend it doesn't hurt for every one of them. Can't I try to make you happy?
~ Melissa Marr
Potser ens dirà que se li acaba de morir el marit escanyat o que té la lepra. Ja estic fins al capdamunt de les tristeses dels altres... Miri, miri, com s'enrabia... - Qui? - El mar. - Deu estar tip de sentir-nos.
~ Unknown
On harvinaisempaa kuin uskoisikaan, että mies menee naimisiin Toisen naisen kanssa - edes vaimon kuoltua. Jos avioliitto on ollut hyvä, mies yhdistää Toisen naisen syyllisyydentunteisiinsa. Jos avioliitto on ollut huono, hän yhdistää Toisen naisen onnettomuuteensa. Ja ennen kaikkea - mieshän on tottunut ajattelemaan Toista naista jonkinlaisena täydentäjänä. Mieluummin hän nai jonkun, joka ei ole koskaan ollut mikään täydentäjä.
~ Unknown