"I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days."

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Source : Victoria Hanley (2010). “The Seer And The Sword”, p.10, Random House

Victoria Hanley

#Grief Quotes #Bereavement Quotes #Gone Quotes

“What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else”
“Most of us who work as professional futurists never really stop gathering information - you never know when a provocative, potentially disruptive new development might appear.”
“The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.”
“Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say no I suppose I'm confessing another fault: pride. I don't want him to know that I love if my affections are not returned”
“Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.”
“I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.”
“Love and happiness inextricably combined? I wanted love stories to coincide with war stories, I wanted hope for my characters, I wanted a sense of a future. So do they. So does the reader. But perhaps I shouldn't speak for everyone when I say that love and happiness are interdependent. In my own experience, happiness came with love. Specifically, my wife. That's when my own apathy and stasis ended for good.”
“Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.”

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