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[aw-my-books]

Grief is forever. It doesn’t go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere (via aw-my-books)

[hirxeth]

(some parts of 2017)

[survivingsiblingsuicide]

“It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.”

— Kristina McMorris, Letters From Home

[survivingsiblingsuicide]

“I wasn’t showing what I really felt. Real grief is ugly and uncomfortable. People look away from grief the same way they look away from severed limbs or gaping wounds. What they want is pain like death on a stage: beautiful, bloodless, presented for their entertainment”

— Sarah Rees Brennan, Tell the Wind and Fire

[bonneibennett]

Let me make you a present of a secret. It’s very simple. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

[amargedom]

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence…”

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[archbudzar]

Taurus season (C.B)(5.2.18)

[standing-on-my-own]

“If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.”

— Nikita Gill

[writingplayingliving]

“Sometimes there isn’t screaming anger or endless sorrow or a hurt that shakes your whole being. Sometimes there’s just quiet. An absence. A refusal of the mind to acknowledge any feeling at all.”

And this is still grief

[honestly-grieving]

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[chaoticroad]

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

[lovelysuggestions]

don’t feel guilty for not being able to handle everything, for needing a break. you need to look after yourself, too. self care is not selfish.

[lifeinpoetry]

when you mourn where                     does it go

— Arianne True, from “the aftermath of what,” published in Literary Hub

[deargriefjournal]

I wish you were still here.

[there-will-be-violence-deactiva]

[ohdearnightmare]

Seeing people who didn’t know your mom died is the scariest thing. They ask kindly “hows your mom” and I have to tell them she passed away. And all that pain comes rushing back.

[motherlessdaughter2016]

I recently had to do this. A friend asked me why my mom didn’t go to Cape Cod with me…I had to tell him she died. It was awkward because I know I make mountains of FB posts about my mom…

[purplebuddhaproject]

“You’re going to lose people in your life. And realise that no matter how much time you spent with them, or how much you appreciated them, it will never seem like it was enough.”

— (via purplebuddhaquotes)