And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak...Jojo Moyes
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The inability to speak is one of the hardest things to cope with when someone close to you dies. The silence left behind can be painful, causing an endless feeling of emptiness. Writers have written about this feeling of emptiness in many different forms, from the one-word answer "no", to the poem "The Road Not Taken". The inability to speak brings up many questions for many people. How do I know what I would have said if he had lived ? Will it matter? What would he have thought of me ? What would I tell my children about him ? Do I get to say anything at all?
Source: Me Before You
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