The Widow
Part Two
“But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
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“You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton
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“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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“There is much asked and only so much I think I can or should answer, and so, in this post I would like to give a few thoughts on what seemed to be the overwhelming question: “WHY?” And here is the best answer I can give: Because.
Because sometimes, life is damned unfair.
Because sometimes, we lose people we love and it hurts deeply.
Because sometimes, as the writer, you have to put your characters in harm’s way and be willing to go there if it is the right thing for your book, even if it grieves you to do it.
Because sometimes there aren’t really answers to our questions except for what we discover, the meaning we assign them over time.
Because acceptance is yet another of life’s “here’s a side of hurt” lessons and it is never truly acceptance unless it has cost us something to arrive there.
Why, you ask? Because, I answer.
Inadequate yet true.”
― Libba Bray
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"Grief, loss, heartbreak, whatever you want to call it, it's not who you are, it doesn't need to define you. It's up to you if you want it to. But I tell you now, if you let it define who you are, you will never know true happiness again."
― Cassandra Carmichael, Countess of Rosslyn
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"You think you're the only one who feels grief? Loss? Well wake up, you're not the only one! Everyone feels it! Everyone knows how it feels! I know how it feels! I've suffered, we've all suffered. The only difference is how well we cope with it. How we let it all go and live. Guess what, I've lived, I've loved again and I don't let my loss eclipse my future. All I ask of you is for you to let it go, learn to live and love again. I'll be here. I'll never leave you."
― Ralphe Mendez
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"Every night, I dream of him. Every night, I miss him more than ever. Every night, I grieve for our forever that's never going to happen. Every night, I think of him. Every night, my pain doubles as my heart still tries to beat for him. And every night, I pray that I'm given one more night to be with him."
― Clara Spence
A/N:
Before I go out for the night, here's the epigraphs for part two, I guess.
BINABASA MO ANG
The Widow
General FictionWhen Clara Dela Merced left the Philippines, she left everything behind knowing that it was the right thing to do especially when the father of her child didn't want them. She left to start anew, she just didn't expect to find a home and love among...
