Acknowledgement Quote by Laura Mullen

“Grief is a simple emotion, but its complications can be endless”

— Taya Kyle

“Grief,” she writes, is “a whisper in the world and a clamor within. More than sex, more than faith, even more than its usher…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“And a real , undoubted grief is sometimes capable of making a solid and steadfast man even out of a phenomenally light-minded one, if…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This is part of the complexity of grief: A piece of you recognizes it is an extreme state, an altered state, yet a large…

— Meghan O'Rourke

Grief is at once a public and a private experience. One's inner, inexpressible disruption cannot be fully realized in one's public persona.

— Meghan O'Rourke

“Grief transforms you into someone you can't even recognize. For some it becomes a hard swim to the shores, becoming a fight for the…

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Grief can be catered just like anything else.”

— Jonathan Tropper

“Grief produces an abundant energy that must find a way to burn itself up. And that is the fundamental problem, one that can take…

— Bill Carter

“Grief is the emotional contract of divorce”

— Cheryl Nielsen

“In the expression of grief lies recovery from grief itself.”

— Christopher Priest

“Grief manifests differently in different people. We all get through things in our own time.”

— Susan Mallery