“If you wish me to weep, you yourselfMust first feel grief.”

“You may weep more if you wish it," he announced, feeling exceedingly generous.”

“...a passing face together with his grief turned you into a weeping Madonna...”

“I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like I was falling, falling into nothing, how it clenched me up and made me want to weep, made me actually weep.”

“When I was with Yoav, everything in me that had been sitting stood up. He had a way of looking at me with a kind of unabashed directness that made me shiver. It's something amazing to feel that for the first time someone is seeing you as you really are, not as they wish you, or you wish yourself, to be.”

“Time does not heal, It makes a half-stiched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour ”