{"quotes":[{"text":"I guess 'joint' would imply two people had ownership, which, thanks Life, is simply no longer the case.","author":"Ann Benjamin","tags":["humor","humorous","widow","widowhood"],"id":54948,"author_id":"Ann+Benjamin"},{"text":"Maybe there is no one way to deal with grief, but knowing that we're not totally alone is the best we can do.","author":"Ann Benjamin","tags":["grief","grief-and-loss","grief-inspirational-bereavement","grief","widow"],"id":56018,"author_id":"Ann+Benjamin"},{"text":"I felt bad for trying to live a happy, full life, while my heart was buried in a dead man’s chest.","author":"Kristen Hope Mazzola","tags":["death","grief","guilt","longing","love","love-and-loss","sadness","widow"],"id":75433,"author_id":"Kristen+Hope+Mazzola"},{"text":"I think first of the children. What the hell am I supposed to tell them? Then I think about money, the house, all those things no widow will tell you ever crossed her mind.","author":"Shannon Celebi","tags":["death","death-and-dying","death-and-love","grief","grieving","husband-and-wife","widow","widowhood","widows"],"id":77430,"author_id":"Shannon+Celebi"},{"text":"Paco, we are all so much more than our faults, aren’t we?","author":"R. Elizabeth Carpenter","tags":["kiss","loss","love","widow"],"id":108180,"author_id":"R.+Elizabeth+Carpenter"},{"text":"Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?","author":"John Wesley","tags":["caring","christianity","clothing","compassion","evangelism","faithfulness","fatherless","feed","finances","giving","help","hungry","money","naked","necessities","needs","orphan","possessions","sharing","stealing","stewardship","strangers","tithe","wants","widow"],"id":198644,"author_id":"John+Wesley"},{"text":"I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["absence","broken-hearted","death","dust","ghost","gone","kiss","love","marriage","memories","missing","photograph","relationship","sleep","widow"],"id":247043,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"To give herself a measure of credible autonomy, she had decided to invent a husband. Then, in a subsequent flash of inspiration, she had just as quickly killed him off.","author":"Tracy Anne Warren","tags":["autonomy","fiction","fictional","husband","inspiration","invent","pretend","pretense","widow"],"id":261586,"author_id":"Tracy+Anne+Warren"},{"text":"In the first year of my grief, there were times when I felt like hiding my personal story of loss and other times when I wanted to wear a sign on my body that read 'Be nice to me, I'm grieving,' or 'Don't tick me off; I've already got the world on my shoulders,' or maybe even 'BEWARE - don't upset the widow!' I needed a variety of signs that I could switch out depending on my daily mood.","author":"Elizabeth Berrien","tags":["grief","hope","inspirational","loss","support","widow","widowhood"],"id":267464,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Berrien"},{"text":"Wrapping his arms around her waist, he kissed her cheek. She inhaled his masculine scent, he smelled of engine grease, citrus hand cleaner and man. She turned in his arms and laid her cheek over his beating heart, treasuring the haven of his embrace...","author":"Tamara Hoffa","tags":["military","romance","second-chance","widow"],"id":281424,"author_id":"Tamara+Hoffa"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}