.:Loss:.

"The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until the loss, I had belonged to that other world, the place of innocence and linear expectations, where I thought grief was a simple, wrenching realm of sadness and longing that gradually receded. What that definition left out was the body blow that loss inflicts, as well as the temporary madness, and a range of less straightforward emotions shocking in their intensity."

~ Gail Caldwell