Pulling through is what people do around here. There is a kind of bravery in their lives that isn’t bravery at all. It is automatic, unflinching, a mix of man and machine, consuming and unquestionable obligation meeting illness move for move in a giant even-steven game of chess – an unending round of something that looks like shadowboxing, though between love and death, which is the shadow? “Everyone admires us for our courage,” says one man. “They have no idea what they’re talking about.”
“Courage requires options,” the man adds.
“There are options,” says a woman with a thick suede headband. “You could give up. You could fall apart.”
“No you can’t. Nobody does. I’ve never seen it,” says the man. “Well, not really fall apart.
Tag: love death courage bravery illness death-of-a-loved-one death-and-sickness death-and-love
They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd look like a dork in them." -Corinna
Carole GeithnerTag: grief bereavement young-adult-fiction death-of-a-loved-one if-only children-s-grief death-of-a-parent
Death never pierces the heart so much as when it takes someone we love; cleaving the heart they held with their passing.
Brandon M. HerbertTag: love loss death mourning death-of-a-loved-one emotional-pain
What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?
Jess WalterTag: widowhood death-of-a-loved-one being-alone
We would not wake up from this nightmare to find out it was someone's real life, and for once that someone wasn't just a poor unlucky nobody in a shack you could forget about. It was our life, the only one we were going to have.
Barbara KingsolverTag: death-of-a-loved-one
Lay down
Your tired
Tag: war silence sleep death sleeping warriors death-of-a-loved-one paratroopers airborne
The train blows, just when I was forgetting. Forgetting that I am here alone. And I wonder if those cars got held up by its passing, just as I have yours.
Kellie ElmoreTag: grief dying quotes grieving death-of-a-loved-one
I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.'
It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.
Tag: autobiography death-of-a-loved-one
You're too damn beautiful for your own good.Hell,you're too damn beautiful for my own good
Caisey QuinnTag: musicians death-of-a-loved-one love-story
If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to stop being sad, to let go, to move on, to cheer up. And if they don’t — if they have loved too deeply, if they do wake each morning thinking, I cannot continue to live — well, then we pathologize their pain; we call their suffering a disease.
We do not help them: we tell them that they need to get help.
Tag: love mother grief death-of-a-loved-one
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