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David Mitchell _ The Bone Clocks
I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist. I never imagined how hungry I'd be one day to look inside it.
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Kate DiCamillo _ The Magician's Elephant
, though Peter. 'Eat,' said Leo Matienne again, very gently.Peter looked the truth of what he had lost full in the face. And then he ate."
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _ The Grooming of Alice
His face looked almost as gray as his suit, and the pouches beneath his eyes looked like little bags for holding all the sadness that his head couldn't hold.
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Emily Giffin _ Heart of the Matter
In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief."
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Elaine Pagels _ Why Religion?: A Personal
No longer married, suddenly I was . From Latin, the name means "emptied." Far worse; it felt like being torn in half, ripped apart from the single functioning organism that had been our family, our lives. Shattered, the word kept recurring; the whole pattern shattered, just as the mountain rocks had shattered his body.
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Elaine Pagels _ Why Religion?: A Personal
What clear is that meaning may not be something we . We found no meaning in our son's death, or in the deaths of countless others. The most we could hope was that we might be able to meaning.
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Elaine Pagels _ Why Religion?: A Personal
Shaken by emotional storms, I realized that choosing to feel guilt, however painful, somehow seemed to offer reassurance that such events did not happen at random.... If guilt is the price we pay for the illusion that we have some control over nature, many of us are willing to pay it. I was. To begin to release the weight of guilt, I had to let go of whatever illusion of control it pretended to offer, and acknowledge that pain and death are as natural as birth, woven inseparably into our human nature.
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Elaine Pagels _ Why Religion?: A Personal
Why do we feel guilty, even when we've done nothing to bring on illness or death--even when we've done everything possible to prevent it? Suffering feels like punishment, as cultural anthropologists observe; no doubt that's one reason why people still tell the story of Adam and Eve, which interprets suffering that way.
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Elaine Pagels _ Why Religion?: A Personal
I did not want to die, but desperately wanted to be anywhere but there; the pain was unbearable. Yet in that vision, or whatever it was, I felt that the intertwined knots were the connections with the people we loved, and that nothing else could have kept us in this world.
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Dennis Lehane _ Shutter Island
She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic."
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Dennis Lehane _ Shutter Island
But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.
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Jude Watson _ In Too Deep
When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.
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