Grief is a country that has no definite borderlines and that recognizes no single trajectory. It is a space that did not exist before your loss, and that will never disappear from your map, no matter how hard you rub at the charcoal lines. Kerri ní Dochartaigh

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies … something your hand touched some way, so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

… so much I cannot think of today, a team of white birds lifting off a shoreline and disappearing into the sun. Billy Collins

Wasn’t it death that taught me to stop measuring my lifespan by length, but by width? Andrea Gibson

I know it may sound greedy to want more days with a person who lived so long, but the fact that my mother was 92 does not diminish, it only magnifies, the enormity of the room whose door has now quietly shut. Stephen Colbert