“Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.”— Veronica Roth Related Quotes “You know what ‘Dolores’ means? It’s Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?”— Wally Lamb “Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”— George R.R. Martin “If slavery persists as an issue in the political life of black America, it is not because of an antiquarian obsession with bygone days or the burden of a too-long memory, but because black lives are still imperiled and devalued by a racial calculus and a political arithmetic that were entrenched centuries ago. This is the afterlife of slavery–skewed life chances, limited access to health and education, premature death, incarceration, and impoverishment.”— Saidiya V. Hartman