Words of remembrance

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

C. S. Lewis

Grief

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Love is strong as death.

Song of Solomon 8:6 (King James Bible)

Love

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Some mornings the light comes in the way it did before, and for a moment nothing hurts. Let those moments count.

Unknown

Hope & comfort

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Say his name at dinner. The silence is heavier than the memory ever was.

Unknown

Remembrance

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What she built keeps working without her, which is the strangest kind of proof that she was here.

Unknown

Legacy

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He was the one who answered the phone at two in the morning.

Unknown

Remembrance

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I don't know what comes after. I know she believed something waited, and she was rarely wrong about what mattered.

Unknown

Faith

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You will not always feel this raw. That is not disloyalty; it is just what time does.

Unknown

Hope & comfort

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Love does not end tidily. It keeps setting a place at the table and then remembering.

Unknown

Love

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Say the name out loud. It costs nothing and it keeps the sound from going strange.

Unknown

Remembrance

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Grief is not a wave. It is a room you keep walking into by accident, looking for something else.

Unknown

Grief

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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Marcus Aurelius

Faith

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson

Hope & comfort

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Grief is the price we pay for love.

Queen Elizabeth II

Grief

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Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.

Henry Scott Holland

Remembrance

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To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

Legacy

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Some days faith is just the willingness to set the table again.

Unknown

Faith

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Say the name out loud. It is not a wound; it is the shortest way back.

Unknown

Remembrance

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He taught three of us to drive, badly and patiently, and now we teach our own children the same way.

Unknown

Legacy

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Grief is not a wave. It is a room you keep walking into by accident.

Unknown

Grief

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We remember him the way we learned him: in habits, in phrases, in the way we hold a hammer.

Unknown

Legacy

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She kept the good scissors in the third drawer, and I still check there first.

Unknown

Remembrance