Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the ways in which the dead drag us along into their shadowy realm because we cannot let them go. So we follow them into the Underworld, descending, descending, until one day we turn and make our way back.
Meghan O'RourkeI play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.
Jennifer DonnellyTag: music sad guilt grief harmony guitars
…nothing remained but loneliness and grief…
Louisa May AlcottTag: loneliness grief little-women louisa-may-alcott
[F]or grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.
PericlesHearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.
Veronica RothTag: pain love family loss sadness grief missing-someone
Sometimes the opposite of loss is loss.
Penelope Scambly SchottA selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.
Rosamund LuptonTag: guilt grief self-realization
She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.
Jean RhysShe'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living would continue even after the loss of a love and that it would remain possible to get caught up in the moment of a simple pleasure before remembering.
Tess ThompsonTag: grief
As Luke knelt down beside his corpse, Clary couldn’t help but remember what he had said about having loved Valentine once, about having been his closest friend. Luke, she thought with a pang. Surely he couldn’t be sad — or even grieved?
But then again, perhaps everyone should have someone to grieve for them, and there was no one else to grieve for Valentine.
Tag: death grief the-mortal-instruments valentine-morgenstern city-of-glass luke-garroway cassandra-clare
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