The Silver Dark Sea
Susan Fletcher
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Grief is such a lonely thing. There is no-one in it with you - others may grieve for the same soul, but they do not grieve exactly for what you also grieve. No-one has lost precisely what you have lost. Not exactly, never exactly. We are in it alone.”
“I know this: there is no sense to grief. There is no pattern or shape or texture, and there are no books or stories which can lessen the pain at losing a person you have loved, and will always love. There are no rules, with loss.”
“...grieving needs space, and it needs so much time. And it needs to be done; it cannot be trodden round or not looked in the eye.”
“We carry them with us... We breathe for them, sing for them soak up stories that they cannot hear. We think they would have loved this... And we smile for them, on their behalf.”
“It is an extraordinary world - full of love, grief, coincidence - and we shall never understand it. We should never try to. We should only be grateful for it. I reckon we should love, breathe, and say all will be well and believe it. And we should share our best stories, as often as we can.”
“Isn't it the rarest thing? Never mind the whale migrations, or total eclipses of suns and moons: love that lasts, and is returned in equal measure, is the rarest thing she knows of.”
“Strange, what the heart can bear. It can carry grief beyond measure. It can bear a weight that is too great to speak of. But a heart can't bear the world. It has its limits...”
“It takes so little... to lose it; grief and disappointment can takes one's faith away so easily that you might wake one morning and have none left.”
“That was Leah, before the fade came. Before the sea mist of depression rolled in without much warning and dampened her, softened her so that she had less strength. She had always been sensitive - that was the word he'd heard for her and it was the right word. She saddened at the lobsters that Tom hauled ashore; she bruised, as ripe fruits do... Still. There is something in Leah. A flash of metal. A piece of grit in the pearl.”
“She never choose anything except her husband, her motherhood and her trust in God. The rest of it was put upon her and she bears it and does her best.”
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rare, love, faith, pain, dead-souls, disappointment, loss, grieving, grief
