Quotes Tagged With :grieving

The dirty secret she’d learned about grief was that nobody wanted to hear about your loss a week after....

She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron....

I am not, anymore, a Christian, but I am lifted and opened by any space with prayer inside it. I didn’t....

It happened in New York, April 10th, nineteen years ago. Even my hand balks at the date. I had to push....

...she imagines her body curled in the narrow monk's bed, knees to chin, her own irrefutable geography,....

He wept bitter tears over the death of his enemy. It was his enemy, after all, who knew him best and....

He means to make his subjects merciful and wise; sorrow and struggle bringeth both. We will, he tells....

Recovery unfolds in three stages. The central task of the first stage is the establishment of safety.....

But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand....