“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” – John Green
“I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” – Leo Tolstoy
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” – C.S. Lewis
“Grief can destroy you –or focus you.” – Dean Koontz
“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.” – Sarah Dessen
“I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.” – C.S. Lewis
“Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it.” – Stephen Levine
“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.” – Cicero
“When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.” – Sherman Alexie
