- Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name. - Peter S. Beagle
- I want to meet you in every place I ever loved. Listen to me--I am your echo. I would rather break the world than lose you. - Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
- Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time. - Sappho
- In this space right here that we have made for each other, you can say anything and I will not abandon you. Unwrap the worst things you have done. Watch me hold them up to the light and not even flinch. - Trista Mateer
- My darling, you will never be unloved by me. You are too well tangled in my soul. - Atticus
- I loved my friend. He went away from me. There's nothing more to say. The poem ends, soft as it began--I loved my friend. - Langston Hughes
- I fear I am more you than I. If I scrape my knee, you will pool out of me onto the sidewalk, a street side memorial: here lies. - Kait Rokowski
- I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world. - Madeline Miller
- The grief of time passing, of life moving on half-finished, of empty spaces that were once bursting with the laughter and energy of people we loved. As long as there is love there will be grief because grief is love's natural continuation. It shows up in the aisles of stores we once frequented, in the whiff of cologne we get two years after they've been gone. Grief is a giant neon sign, protruding through everything, pointing everywhere, broadcasting loudly, "LOVE WAS HERE". In the finer print, quietly, "LOVE STILL IS." - Heidi Priebe
- After my grandma died, I measured everything in distance: eight hundred miles from my parents. Two thousand five hundred miles from where she was buried. Do you understand what I'm saying? The distance between me and everyone I've lost grows by miles and years. - José Olivarez
- I wrestle with the knowledge that the grief will always be longer than the time I had known you. - L.E.S
- And I'm still found looking for you in the places I could not bear to see you in. - Sam J. Grudgings
- Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds. - Ono no Komachi, Izumi Shikibu
- Here, again, grief fashioned in its cruelest translation: my imagined you is all I have left of you. - John Freeman
- My mouth, so far from yours, said I am afraid I will spend entire years trying not to need you. As if I wasn't certain. As if this wasn't my confession.
- But when someone's gone and you're the primary keeper of his memory--letting go would be a kind of murder, wouldn't it? - Rebecca Makkai
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