But grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.

Grief is love turned into an eternal missing

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning.

Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage. . .

A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.

Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you.

The gastliness of nothing. Because I was nobody's sister now.

When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human i

People who have metal implants should be familiar with the symptoms of radio wave sickness and should keep their environment free of wireless radiation producing products.

Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs.

No pressure, no diamonds.

One of the premises of parenting might be that the job of parents is to teach their kids to get along without them.

He [Wladimir Klitschko] likes silence when he fights because it gives him time and room to think. He doesn't like things to get chaotic or crazy.