“There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity.”— Nina LaCour Related Quotes “Creation is filled with soul-sick folks, colored and white, never knowing where they belong. They tangle everybody else up in their grief.”— Jonathan Odell “Grief keeps coming back with the same things in its hands — you know this. You know that the hands of grief are memory. Again and again, grief holds the same few things.”— Lindsay Hill “Indeed, grief is not the clear melancholy the young believe it. It is like a siege in a tropical city. The skin dries and the throat parches as though one were living in the heat of the desert; water and wine taste warm in the mouth, and food is of the substance of the sand; one snarls at one’s company; thoughts prick one through sleep like mosquitoes.”— Rebecca West