Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

if love doesnt come first and linger after, if love cant wait and endure disappointment and seperation, then its not love.

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.

...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

If a man does not die of a wound, then it heals in some fashion, and so it is with loss. From the sharp pain of immediate berevement, both the Prince and I passed into the gray days of numb bewilderment and waiting. So grief has always seemed to me, a time of waiting not for the hurt to pass, but to become accustomed to it.

Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.