“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”

Philippe Ariès, The Year of Magical Thinking /Joan Didion


The third answer is the most difficult one to grasp, but it’s also the one that can save you. The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its shape, but it’s always there. The task is to recognize it in its new form.

Bittersweet | Susan Cain