“Her grief was a burden so heavy, he came close to collapsing under it, and yet he couldn’t lay it down.”— Carsten Jensen Related Quotes “It is extraordinary that nobody nowadays under the stress of great troubles is turned into stone or a bird or a tree or some inanimate object; they used to undergo such metamorphoses in ancient times (or so they say), though whether that is myth or a true story I know not. Maybe it would be better to change one’s nature into something that lacks all feeling, rather than be so sensitive to evil. Had that been possible, these calamities would in all probability have turned me to stone.”— Anna Comnena “…grief is as much about regret for what you’ve never had as sadness for what you’ve lost.”— David Nicholls “Diggy wished he could cut sentences out of his head the way he could cut them out of a book, then cut them in half and word by word and letter by letter until they were bits of nothing that drifted from the scissors’ edges, gravity not even interested enough to pull them down.”— Rebecca Petruck