3,968 Quotes About Grief

  • Author Orson Scott Card
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    And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts, the boy whose frightened voice had cried out to her at the end of his life, as if he wondered why he had gotten lost inside himself, as if he realized that it was too, too late to get out again.

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  • Author Robin Hobb
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    I grasped that it would take a while for the keep to grasp with all that had happened. But there was something there, a feeling almost of relief. I had seen that before in a man who had had his maimed foot removed, or the family that finally finds their drowned child's body. To finally confront the worst there is, to look at it squarely in the face and say, "I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still, I live, and I will go on living.

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