I know now that what is tragic isn’t the moment. It is the memory.

Jacqueline Woodson
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  1. Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

  2. The real hell of this, " he told her, "is that you're going to get through it.

  3. The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence, and linear expectations, where I thught grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and...

  4. Mostly I couldn't bear... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time wondering where people got the fortitude or delusion to keep on moving past the static dead.

  5. I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures....We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow.

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