Family Quote by Thomas Grayboys

“Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from…

— Claudia Gray

“The roots of our grief coil so deeply into loss that death has come to live with us like a family member who makes…

— Susan Abulhawa

“The sharp edge of grief might dull with time, but it never truly went away. The cruel blade was always in your heart, just…

— Jennifer Estep

“The grieving process is different for everyone. The very thing that might bring peace to one person might bring despair to another.”

— Heather Burch

“Grief is a sword, or it is nothing.”

— Paul Monette

“I saw everyone, a shifting sea of discomfort and sadness, each person carrying his own pain, each telling her own stories, no story more…

— Jennifer Brown

“There is a sacredness in tears…They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”

— Washington Irving

“This was our grief and pain at our deepest. This was our hearts and souls scraped raw. This was desperation so intense I felt…

— Rachel Higginson

“The closest bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Isn’t it tragic that sometimes it takes grief to understand what we have held so dear?”

— Priscille Sibley

“They were happy, or at least as happy as a family can be when it’s burdened by a grief too large to be absorbed…

— Fredrik Backman

“Sorrow is the darkest, most intense form of passion hidden in the recesses of the human spirit.”

— Andrea Randall