--- title: "1 Grief Doesn Quotes By Ann Hood" description: "1 Grief Doesn quotes by Ann Hood. Plus more from Ann Hood and more Grief Doesn sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/193/ann-hood-10436_beginning_grief-doesn-t-have-a-plot-it-isn-t-smoot_2400529.jpg" --- > [Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-hood/grief-doesn-t-have-a-plot-it-isn-t-smooth-there-is-no-beginning-and/) [Ann Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-hood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/193/ann-hood-10436_beginning_grief-doesn-t-have-a-plot-it-isn-t-smoot_2400529.jpg) ## More by Ann Hood > [Everyone has read about or knows someone who has gone through fertility treatments. It is an emotional nightmare, fueled by false hope and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-hood/everyone-has-read-about-or-knows-someone-who-has-gone-through/) [Ann Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-hood/) > [“Still, he loved her. She knew that. He loved her the best way he could. But she wasn't sure that was enough anymore.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-hood/still-he-loved-her-she-knew-that-he-loved-her-the-best-way-he-could/) [Ann Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-hood/) > [“On April 18, 1906, when that earthquake hit San Francisco and took David from her, Vivien began to speak the language of grief. She…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-hood/on-april-18-1906-when-that-earthquake-hit-san-francisco-and-took/) [Ann Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-hood/) > [I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-hood/i-have-learned-that-there-is-more-power-in-a-good-strong-hug-than-in/) [Ann Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-hood/) > [Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-hood/babies-make-you-do-things-for-them-they-get-you-up-and-they-get-you/) [Ann Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-hood/) > [“Follow love and it will flee; Flee love and it will follow you.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-hood/follow-love-and-it-will-flee-flee-love-and-it-will-follow-you/) [Ann Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-hood/) > [I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I used to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-hood/i-was-a-daughterless-mother-i-had-nowhere-to-put-the-things-a-mother/) [Ann Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-hood/) > [For reasons I can't remember, my family eventually stopped attending church, and I started questioning the Catholic Church's beliefs. I dabbled a little, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-hood/for-reasons-i-can-t-remember-my-family-eventually-stopped-attending/) [Ann Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-hood/) > [Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-hood/since-my-brother-died-in-1982-my-parents-and-i-had-formed-a-shaky/) [Ann Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-hood/) > [“Nothing can stop the words so well as the mute alphabet of knit and purl. The curl of your cupped hand scoops up long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-hood/nothing-can-stop-the-words-so-well-as-the-mute-alphabet-of-knit-and/) [Ann Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-hood/) > [I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-hood/i-learned-to-knit-in-2002-six-months-after-my-5-year-old-daughter/) [Ann Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-hood/) > [If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-hood/if-watching-your-child-die-is-a-parent-s-worst-nightmare-imagine/) [Ann Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-hood/) > [In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-hood/in-my-adult-life-i-had-spent-a-lot-of-time-angry-at-god-mostly-over/) [Ann Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-hood/) > [God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-hood/god-does-give-us-more-than-we-can-bear-sometimes/) [Ann Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-hood/) > [As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ann-hood/as-someone-who-has-lived-the-nightmare-of-losing-a-child-i-know-that/) [Ann Hood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ann-hood/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/grief-doesn/ann-hood/#itemlist", "name": "1 Grief Doesn Quotes By Ann Hood", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Grief doesn't have a plot. 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