That was the funny thing about regret. It lived inside of you, shrinking down until you could almost believe it had vanished, only to spring up, fully formed called forward by people who meant you no harm. Julie Clark, The Last Flight

Not to make loss beautiful but to make loss the place where beauty starts. Gregory Orr

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world – the company of those who have known suffering. Helen Keller

Maybe people have to go in and out of shadows … Maybe somebody has to explore what happens when one of us wanders over near the edge and falls for a while. Maybe it was your turn. William Stafford

We live on the dash between our birth day and our death day. Jesse Jackson