"'Not yet? Which implies that at some point I won't feel like this. But the thing people don't seem to realize is that I don't want to not feel like this. How can I not feel like this? My sadness feels right. It ... weighs the right amount, crushes me just enough. My anger is clean, it bolsters me.'" -Into the Water

"Grief was not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss. You never knew when you would be sling-shot backward into its grip."
"Now she's grown, or at least she thinks she is. But she hasn't yet learned the mathematics of grief."
 -The Mothers