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I’m not ungrateful--and perhaps--when this horrible ache grows a little less--I’ll find that I can go on living.

The thought that it may stop hurting sometimes hurts me worse than all else, Marilla.

Carlo got very fond of me--and his dog-love helped me through that first dreadful year after mother died, when I was alone.

Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

Only, my dear wife, let us both be patient at this calamity.

Otherwise, my dear wife, we shall seem discontented at the birth of our little daughter, if we consider our position before her birth as more perfect.

The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of parents and of friends.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Only in the chamber of death writhed the world's most piteous thing--a childless mother.

No, the love which survives the tomb is one of the noblest attributes of the soul.

My heart rebelled against God, who had taken from me mother, father, mistress, and friend.

Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the affections change, as the objects of thought do.

Better far this nameless void that stops my life than a sea of sorrow for you.

the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart