“Unacquainted with grief, I knew not how to appraise my bereavement; I could not rightly estimate the strength of the stroke.”— Ambrose Bierce Related Quotes “The fish will not blame you. You have to do this. I will not look at you and think you’re a bad brother. Nobody will. You have to leave because this time you have to save yourself.”— Hannah Moskowitz “The great love is gone. There are still little loves – friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you deny yourself comfort at the hearthfire of a cottage because you may no longer sit by the fireplace of a palace? Will you deny yourself to those who reach out to you in hopes of warming themselves at your hearthfire?”— Mercedes Lackey “… I have waited for this day, and grief faded with time.Or did it? Perhaps grief never leaves us but is merely drowned out by a flood of life overwhelming it. Perhaps the wound that bled once is bleeding still, and I did not notice it until now.”— Claire North