A Thousand Broken Pieces (A Thousand Boy Kisses #2)

by Tillie Cole

“So she won’t miss out on new adventures,” he would tell me.

Rob told me that grief never left us. Instead we adapted, like it was a new appendage we had to learn to use. That at any moment, pain and heartache could strike and break us. But eventually we would develop the tools to cope with it and find a way to move on.

I’m afraid grief is incurable. But we can learn to live with it. We can learn to find happiness again. To smile and laugh. And there will come a time where memories of our loved ones are more positive than negative. Where we will be able to talk of them again with happiness, not sadness, and remember the good times.”

“If someone judges you for how long it’s taking you to move past a loved one’s death, be happy for them, because it means they’ve never experienced it.”

CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy).

But if life had taught me anything, it’s that it can change on a dime.

“Sometimes, people don’t let their loved ones know how much they are hurting because they don’t want to bring them pain too.”

Grief makes you feel isolated and alone. But the truth is, it’s the least lonely state to be in.”

Because when you have lost something so precious, when something priceless comes along, you embrace it with both hands. And you never let it go.

We see it every day, though we may not realize it. We wander through trees in the fall, the leaves dying as they turn red, yellow, and brown and drift to the ground. We see animals pass, we display flowers in our homes, and dispense of them when they die. “We feel it harder and deeper when it’s a loved one, of course. But death won’t be a onetime experience for any of us.

“Death is the best lesson in life. Death teaches us to live, for the short amount of time we are here. Death teaches us to live with all our heart and soul, day by day, minute by treasured minute.”

“I used to worry about losing her. Now I’m terrified of forgetting her.”

“Your grief does not make you a bad person. The way you process it does not make you weak.

fleck

felt so happy I thought I would burst.

We must free our loved ones’ souls too. So they are unshackled from this life.

She deserved her place among the stars, the night sky craving her unearthly shine.

“Depression, for some, can be so difficult to live with that it is a terminal illness…”

“I’ll never understand how the hell you took a chance on me. But I’ll never stop being grateful.”

that which is broken, once repaired, can be more beautiful than it was before.”

“Wabi-sabi teaches us to embrace life’s imperfections, its impermanence and incompleteness.”