There’s no quick fix for grief. No shortcuts, no easy answer, no way to erase it. Only time can do that, and even then, just barely.

—Alyson Noël in Night Star

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About Alyson Noël

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Alyson Noël (born December 3, 1965) is an American author from Orange County, California.

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We meet the people we're supposed to when the time is just right.

—Alyson Noël in Shadowland

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Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

—Russell Baker

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Unless you've touched a corpse before, you can't comprehend the visceral wrongness of inert flesh wrapped around an inanimate object that wears your mother's face. You feel sick with guilt and regret and sadness about inconsequential anecdote. You can't remember anything thoughtful or sweet or tender that you ever did even though logically you know you must have. All you can recall is how often you were small and petty and false. She was your mother and she loved you in a way nobody ever has and nobody ever will and now she's gone.

—Elan Mastai in All Our Wrong Todays

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Perhaps it is the greater grief to be left on earth when another is gone.

—Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles

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You usually can't recall all the people you've shared laughs with. But you rarely forget the people you've shared your tears with.

—Mya Robarts in The V Girl

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