“Grief is the agony of an instant: the indulgence of grief is the blunder of life. ”
“This lamp that burns within letting me burn the grief, agony, confusion & bitterness before returning to the steady light that illumines.”
“We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.”
“Grief shared was grief lessened.”
“…crying not in grief but in wonder that nothing is ever lost, that everything can be retrieved, that a lifetime is not linear but instant. That, inside the head, everything happens at once.”
“The grief in her green eyes slips then hardens and, for an instant, Pendleton sees the woman she has become and has no right being, not at sixteen.”