“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence.”

“I remember my first day without you… I’ve never been the same.”

If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven’t, you cannot possibly imagine it.

The past will always be a part of who we are. It’s how we feel about it moving forward that matters.

grief, i’ve learned, is really just love. it’s all the love you want to give but cannot. all that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and the hollow part of your chest. grief is just love with no place to go.

When you wake up from a dream that makes you so sad that you start crying, years after they’ve passed, it doesn’t mean you haven’t healed. It just means you loved them so very much and you miss them.

“One day I promise I’ll stop being sad about everything. But today’s not it.”

“I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself.”

Grief is like glitter; No matter how much you try and tidy it up you’re never going to get rid of it all. You’re always going to find bits of it.