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Loss does different things to different people. Some fall apart. Some, like the Finder, rebuild. I have done both. I have crawled under my table and refused to come out. I have covered myself with thorns and tattoos. I have planted a garden, reached out to my neighbors, begun to write down my story.
- Alice Hoffman
Matt and Will got out and hoisted the wolfhound inside. The faithful deserve something, on this everyone agreed: kindness, at least, consideration, naturally; most of all, the right to their grief.
- Alice Hoffman
If you are loved, you never lose the person who loved you. You carry them with you all your
- Alice Hoffman
And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be.
- Alice Walker
T}here is a point at which even grief feels absurd. And at this point, laughter gushes up to retrieve sanity.
- Alice Walker
There is a special grief felt by the children and grandchildren of those who were forbidden to read, forbidden to question or to know.
- Alice Walker
I do not grieve in the abstract, but in the heart.
- Alice Walker
The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.
- Joel Osteen
The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.
- Samuel Johnson
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
- Anonymous
Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes.
- Anonymous
If tears could build a stairway, And memories a lane, I'd walk right up to Heaven And bring you home again.
- Anonymous