Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.
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Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.
My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy.
Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away.
After a while, though the grief did not go away from us, it grew quiet. What had seemed a storm wailing through the entire darkness seemed to come in at last and lie down.
Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.
No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a pill, or distract ourselves, but by all means make it go away. (5)
The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.
Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?
The more things I threw away, the more I found.
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