Gail Caldwell Quotes

The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course.

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Grief doesn't necessarily make you noble.  Sometimes it just makes you crazy, or primitive with fear.

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I thought grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that gradually receded.  What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity.

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