Grief Quote by Anne Ursu

“Her bond with the couple who raised her is fierce and beyond questioning. She cannot name the sensation of losing them as grief. She…

— M.L. Stedman

“Her grief was dignified and hidden, as is most grief, which is partly why there is always so much of it to go around.”

— Kevin Powers

“This was what real grief felt like—she had never truly felt it before. All the times she had been sad, all the times she…

— Dan Chaon

“Even as she listened to murmurs of support, she heard the relief in other people’s voices, the immense gratitude that it wasn’t their child…

— Kristin Hannah

“She closed her eyes, silently continuing the pleas that she be given words that might soothe, words that would begin the healing of bereaved…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“Grief wasn't a feeling. It was a thing that visited. It was a weight, a lead wall, and it pressed on her lungs and…

— Meg Gardiner

“Grief she could not feel, for there had been too much bitterness between her mother and herself to leave in her heart any deep…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“She was no longer wresting with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in…

— George Eliot

“Her grief is old, I reminded myself. And yet I didn't think pain like that ever faded entirely. Grief had its own life, took…

— Leigh Bardugo

“But as time moved on, the nature of the grief changed. In some ways it was almost crueller in the way it took her.…

— Cass Green

“It was a look that suggested emotions happening just past your line of sight: a grief so deep you'd never be able to see…

— Leslie Jamison

“Incessantly, it seemed, life plagued her with responsibilities, made her fall in love, ripped away any consolation she might find. Sisters and parents, brothers…

— Meg Rosoff