"I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and it wasn't linear. Somehow I'd thought that the first days would be the worst and then it would get steadily better - like getting over the flu. That's not how it was."

-- Meghan O'Rourke

#Grief Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Flu Quotes

“One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.”

Source : Barbara Hambly (2011). “Bride of the Rat God”, p.42, Open Road Media
“I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get out from where I was ... some deep discontent within myself, actually some deep dislike of myself.”
“Benedict is bumbly, sweet, affable; the nicest man you've met.”
“I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will mourn for me.”
“I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.”
“True competence is based on oneâ€™s own ability to observe.”
“Of course 'Hamlet' is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings.”
“When I attended the University, I daydreamed about being a movie star. I would do my dressing room in Early American and give lovely presents to my make-up man and hairdresser for making me look so lovely, and so on. When I got my contract at 20th I was in seventh heaven, but I found out that a movie career is mostly hard work laced with disappointments.”

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