Behinds Quote by Sue Monk Kidd

“He held onto his grief as a way to hold on to who he was grieving. He felt that his pain was his last…

— Sean Norris

Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time…

— Anonymous

He'd come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that's what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because…

— Melvin Burgess

“He had forgotten that grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve like a graph in a child's math…

— Helen Simonson

He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast…

— Anonymous

“Her affection overwhelmed him, as did her softness, her tears. Even after all he’d said to her, after all he’d done-she still gave a…

— Tessa Dare

“He sobbed no longer playing the part of her savior, but playing the part of a lover begging for another chance, a man who…

— Inger Iversen

He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now…

— Etgar Keret

“He was enmeshed in his grief. He did not notice that Graceless's leg had come off and that she was managing as best she…

— Stella Gibbons

“The grief remained, and the guilt hadn’t gone anywhere, but they didn’t crush him the way they once did. They sat beside him instead,…

— R.P. Gage

He didn't know what else to do, how to comfort her, so he simply held her, held the only person in the world who…

— Nalini Singh

“He might have known that she would do this; she had never cared for him, she had made a fool of him from the…

— W. Somerset Maugham