"Grief is a swallow. One day you wake up and you think it's gone, but it's only migrated to some other place, warming its feathers. Sooner or later, it will return and perch in your heart again."
--from pages 197 - 198 of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
"Sorrow's child grieves not what is past, but all the past still yet to come."
ReplyDelete--Nick Cave
It's come to this: *you* are quoting Nick Cave to *me.* But it's certainly apt.
ReplyDeleteThat's what you get for introducing me to his work lo those many moons ago.
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