If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
death loss sisters
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
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Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
death loss
If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?
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Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?
loss suffering
It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you'd been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was the purest form of that. A child was the love you didn't have to look for, didn't have to prove anything to, didn't have to worry about losing. Which is why, when it happened, it hurt so badly.
children loss tso-love
I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.
grief loss
He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.
grief loss sorrow
In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.
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Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.
life life-lessons loss
I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart.
breakup loss