Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

There are lies in tears. The ones we weep most loudly are usually for ourselves, yet how easily we can pass them off as grief.

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.

when life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

Once you have walked down the grief path, what you have gained on your journey may turn into invaluable advice for someone else.

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

There was something about other people's grief that was so exposing, so personal, that she felt she shouldn't be looking.

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prio

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Sometimes you hide away a memory because it is so precious that you don’t want to dilute it with the attempt to recount it.

Sometimes you hide away a memory because it is so precious that you don’t want to dilute it with the attempt to recount it.

I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?