"…but grief, he’d discovered, was not an experience you went through once and then ‘moved on’ (as the idiotic popular phrase would have it). The truth was that it came over you in successive waves - waves separated by periods of numbness, periods of forgetfulness, periods of ordinary living." John Verdon, Shut Your Eyes Tight

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"There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly." The Great Gatsby

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"Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it." David Foster Wallace

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"She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum." Jonathan Safran Foer

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