{"quotes":[{"text":"Loss is like a wind, it either carries you to a new destination or it traps you in an ocean of stagnation. You must quickly learn how to navigate the sail, for stagnation is death.","author":"Val Uchendu","tags":["action","loss","loss-of-a-child","loss-of-a-loved-one","loss-of-faith","loss-of-family","loss-of-freedom","loss-of-hope","loss-of-innocence","loss-of-job","loss-of-love","movement","navigation","ocean","stagnation","wind"],"id":56891,"author_id":"Val+Uchendu"},{"text":"When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus. 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Maybe it was too late for any other kind of life. This was all he knew. It was safe, insulated. Familiar. An absense of emotion kept him sane. Or what passed for it.","author":"Virginia Brown","tags":["loss-of-hope","reflection"],"id":135144,"author_id":"Virginia+Brown"},{"text":"The dreams that surfaced upon meeting up with him again winked out of existence, stars darkening for good.","author":"Katherine McIntyre","tags":["dark","darkening-stars","dreams","fear","loss-of-hope","love","relationship","romance","stars"],"id":222126,"author_id":"Katherine+McIntyre"},{"text":"She can feel her vanished talent like a phantom limb, the empty ache of its subtraction from the short list of her assets, and she knows with spiteful certainty that it is gone for good.","author":"Christina Moracho","tags":["life","loss","loss-of-hope"],"id":247469,"author_id":"Christina+Moracho"},{"text":"When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus. 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