“Don't say mourning. It's too psychoanalytic. I'm not mourning. I'm suffering.”

“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope.”

“You can never recover from losing a person you love, but you can find a way to let it be part of your life rather than letting it take over every part of you.”