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Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. it is a band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. and the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.
For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.
I was fascinated by the lack of a word for a parent who has lost a child. we have no word in english. i thought for sure there'd be a word in irish but there is none. and then i looked in several other languages and could not find one, until i found the word sh'khol in hebrew. i'm still not sure why so many languages don't have a word for this sort of bereavement, this shadowing.
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night.
Cordelia! stay a little. ha! what is't thou say'st? her voice was ever soft.
There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. you don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it.
The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.
She heard him mutter, 'can you take away this grief?' 'i'm sorry,' she replied. 'everyone asks me. and i would not do so even if i knew how. it belongs to you. only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.
Farewell is said by the living, in life, every day. it is said with love and friendship, with the affirmation that the memories are lasting if the flesh is not.
If, as i can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
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