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"grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. you get used to the weight, how it holds you in place."

— sarah dessen, the truth about forever

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"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

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"it sucks that we miss people like that. you think you've accepted that someone is out of your life, that you've grieved and it's over, and then bam. one little thing, and you feel like you've lost that person all over again."

— rachel hawkins, demonglass

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"it's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. but then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses."

— colette

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"but when i do feel all the strength go out of me, and i fall to my knees beside the table and i think i cry, then, or at least i want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more."

— veronica roth, allegiant

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— epigraph —
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— in which elena and her three children must deal with even more heartache due to the death of a loved one in their lives —

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— in which elena loses her husband in a fatal car crash and has to learn to move on. the first move being moving out of mystic falls and to a new town, which happens to be a rural town in louisiana —