“How we gentle our losses into paler ghosts.”
“If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us,/saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble,/how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?”
“It is how we respond to loss that matters. That response will largely determine the quality, the direction, and the impact of our lives.”
“...we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.”
“The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses.”
“We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can”