I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. F….

In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost..

I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days ….

Grief is not a problem to be fixed but a process to be lived out..

Grief is characterized much more by waves of feeling that lessen and reoccur, it's less like stages and more like different states of feeling..

Finally there is nothing here for death to take away..

Grief is a process, not a state..

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first no….

Success is never deserved. Success is always earned..

I'm not a great beauty. That's not me..

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one..

To have what few have, do what few do..

Love can make us do dreadful things..

If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal..

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet..

Especially learn how to see..

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care, nor your nights without a want and a grief, but rather when these things girdle your ….

For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed si….

There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, ….

It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain..

Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself..