That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.
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Zum Autor"Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place."
"To me she said, 'It's this stupid gotcha thing, they've been doing it for weeks now. Leaping out at each other and us, scaring the hell out of everyone.'It's a game of wits,' Bert said to me.'Half-wits,' Kristy added."
"Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose."
"I would have thought this would make me feel better.. Getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all."
"The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, 'is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life."
"Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance."