In winter, you’re never more than a few steps from darkness. Katherine May

Whatever I am doing, wherever I am, I am thinking: Where is he, where is he? He can’t just have vanished. He must be someplace. All I have to do is find him. Maggie O’Farrell

In the end, this may be why certain losses are so shocking, not because they defy reality, but because they reveal it. Kathryn Schulz

The sea of grief has no shores, no bottom; no one can sound its depths. Primo Levi

I want a word that means okay and not okay, a word that means devastated and stunned with joy. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer