“We need to talk about the hierarchy of grief. You hear it all the time—no grief is worse than any other. I don’t think that’s one bit true. There is a hierarchy of grief. Divorce is not the same as… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
“There is not a reason for everything. Not every loss can be transformed into something useful. Things happen that do not have a silver… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
“Every loss is valid. And every loss is not the same. You can't flatten the landscape of grief and say that everything is equal.… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
“The reality of grief is far different from what others see from the outside. There is pain in this world that you can't be… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
“True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the way forward.” — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
“We need to know how to live here, where life as we know it can change, forever at anytime.” — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
“Acknowledgment--being seen and heard and witnessed inside the truth about one's own life--is the only real medicine of grief.” — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
“We have to start telling the truth about this kind of pain-grief , loss, love .” — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
“What we all share in common - the real reason for this book - is a desire to love better. To love ourselves in… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
“When you try to take someone's pain away from them, you don't make it better. You just tell them it's not OK to talk… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
“Some things cannot be fixed; they can only be carried. Grief like yours, love like yours, can only be carried. Survival in grief, even… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
“The cult of positivity we have does everyone a disservice. It leads us to believe we’re more in charge of the world than we… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
