“Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind.”
“Death is harder on those who are left behind.”
“If you tell me I look like someone you know, I might get panicked and think you’re on to me. I thought nobody saw me abduct that guy and steal his identity.”
“There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.”
“I’d read enough to know that one of the symptoms of grief was a deep anger at the loved one who’d died, anger that impaired your judgement, made you want to scream and curse because they’d left you. But Nick hadn’t died, and I didn’t realize that I was suffering the symptoms of grief.”
“Death is never swift... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After”