{"quotes":[{"text":"As he watches the sun rise, what grieves him is that he failed her. He thinks of the terror she felt. They tell him it was quick, as if that will somehow confine the horror.","author":"Nancy Horan","tags":["death","grieving","murder"],"id":6859,"author_id":"Nancy+Horan"},{"text":"Grief makes gravity heavier and air molecules denser, so breathing is accomplished in a shallow, half-hearted way.","author":"Dee Williams","tags":["breathing","grief","grief-and-loss","grieving"],"id":7118,"author_id":"Dee+Williams"},{"text":"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.","author":"Sarah Dessen","tags":["grief","grieving","language","words"],"id":13136,"author_id":"Sarah+Dessen"},{"text":"You’re everything to me. But at best, I’m just a memory to you.","author":"Ranata Suzuki","tags":["always-yours","beautiful","beautiful","break-up","break-ups","breakup","breakup","breakup","broken-heart","deep-love","deep-love","deep-thoughts","feelings","feelings-and-emotions","feelings-of-love","grief","grief-and-loss","grief","grieving","heartbreak","heartbreak","heartbroken","heartbroken","i-miss-you","loss","loss-of-love","loss","loss","lost","lost-love","lost-love","love","love","love","love","love-and-sayings","memories","memories","memory","memory","missing-someone","missing-you","quote","quotes","ranata-suzuki","ranata-suzuki","reminders","reminisce","reminiscence","reminiscing","sad","sad","sad","sadness","secret-love","the-one-that-got-away","the-only-one","the-past","unrequited","unrequited-love","without-you"],"id":19213,"author_id":"Ranata+Suzuki"},{"text":"He was both everything I could ever want…And nothing I could ever have….","author":"Ranata Suzuki","tags":["always-yours","beautiful","beautiful","break-up","break-ups","breakup","breakup","breakup","broken-heart","deep-love","deep-love","deep-thoughts","feelings","feelings-and-emotions","feelings-of-love","grief","grief-and-loss","grief","grieving","heartbreak","heartbreak","heartbroken","heartbroken","i-miss-you","loss","loss-of-love","loss","loss","lost","lost-love","lost-love","love","love","love","love","love-and-sayings","memories","memories","memory","memory","missing-someone","missing-you","quote","quotes","ranata-suzuki","ranata-suzuki","reminders","reminisce","reminiscence","reminiscing","sad","sad","sad","sadness","secret-love","the-one-that-got-away","the-only-one","the-past","unrequited","unrequited-love","without-you"],"id":20404,"author_id":"Ranata+Suzuki"},{"text":"She scanned the Starveil posts, her mood darkening. Spartan had been a part of her life since elementary school. Losing him felt like having a piece of herself torn away. No amount of fix-it fics or alternate universes could change the fact her one true character had died.","author":"Danika Stone","tags":["grief","grieving","liv","one-true-character","otc"],"id":27569,"author_id":"Danika+Stone"},{"text":"Grief came in waves, sometimes big, sometimes small, but even on the calmest days, the grief remained. The tide still came ashore.","author":"Dianna Hardy","tags":["dealing-with-grief","death","grief","grieving","loss","ocean","sea","sorrow","tides","time","waves","waves-of-grief"],"id":28184,"author_id":"Dianna+Hardy"},{"text":"The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?","author":"Mercedes Lackey","tags":["grief","grieving","life-lesson","lost-love","love"],"id":28977,"author_id":"Mercedes+Lackey"},{"text":"I’ve been moving a little to the music while I worked …and then I realize I am actually dancing. It feels wonderful, though I can feel how stiff my muscles are, how rigidly I’ve been holding myself…Mostly I’ve been moving cautiously, numbly, steeled because I know, at any moment, I may be ambushed by overwhelming grief. You never know when it’s coming, the word or gesture or bit of memory that dissolved you entirely…It happens every day at first, then not for a day or two, then there’s a week when grief washes in every morning, every afternoon.","author":"Mark Doty","tags":["beauty","dancing","grief","grieving","happiness","joy","loss"],"id":32883,"author_id":"Mark+Doty"},{"text":"The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.","author":"Rob Liano","tags":["death","death-and-dying","death-and-love","death-note","death-of-a-child","death-of-a-loved-one","grieve","grieving","inspiration","life","life-lessons","life-philosophy","loss","loss-of-a-child","loss-of-family","love","mourning","sorrow","sorrowful"],"id":35381,"author_id":"Rob+Liano"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":182,"pages":19,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}