“There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.”

“It is the death of hope that comes as the greatest relief”

“The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want...”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.”

“If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble.”

“If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?”

“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.”

“And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable.”

“What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.”

“[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...”

“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.”