Beautiful Ugly

by Alice Feeney

Grief is a patient thief and steals far more than people who have never known it realize.

“Success is often the result of a series of failures. Try to remember that. You never learn anything from success, but failure can teach you everything about a person.

Regrets, by definition, are the least punctual of emotions.

You can only rearrange the furniture of your life a number of times before things look the same as they did.

There is nothing sweet about sorrow. Sadness can consume a person if it is allowed to linger too long. It takes root and buries itself inside a person’s soul, until every thought is too heavy, too painful to think.

Grief is like a fingerprint, different every time.