The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things it can k — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things it can k — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things it can k — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things it can k — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things it can k — Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things it can kill.

— Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human. — Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Love is an engraved invitation to grief. — Sunshine O'Donnell, Open Me
...we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we — Michelle Moran, Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
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What happens when you let go, when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there's nothing that you or — Mark Halperin
My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel. — Alice Hoffman, Green Angel
I was helpless in trying to return people's kindness, but also helpless to resist it. Kindness is a scarier force than c — Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
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Ah, grief makes us precise! — Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
The only way to end grief was to go through it. — Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest
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