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Our relationship had been doomed form the start, because it was based on grief, and unlike love, grief eventually passed.


Ilona Andrews

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Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel g...
PHILIP K. DICK Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.
ILONA ANDREWS Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring...
ILONA ANDREWS When a relationship of love is disrupted, the relationship does not cease. The love continues; there...
W. SCOTT LINEBERRY Vengeance Is a Lazy Form of Grief
NICOLE KIDMAN If we deny the grief its right in our lives, then we must question the love for which the grief is s...
W. SCOTT LINEBERRY Our standard rate. A doubloon a day."
It was generous. More than generous--some families would ...
ILONA ANDREWS So, regarding that tidbit about your having a fertile imagination when it comes to private activitie...
ILONA ANDREWS Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Loss eventually arrives when something departs. Grief is working through both.
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Oh, well has it been said, that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak!
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ...we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we...
MICHELLE MORAN Grief is a form of validation; it says the wound mattered. It mattered. You mattered.
JOHN ELDREDGE Grief, we know where we've been. We know where we want to be.
WYLIE R. WEEKS A black raven flew past me and landed on the back of the couch.
Roman slapped his hand over his...
ILONA ANDREWS Grandpa?" Declan raised his eyebrows.
"We keep him in the shed out back," Jack said helpfully. ...
ILONA ANDREWS It’s okay to cry. Giving in to the tears is terrifying,
like freefalling to earth without a p...
LYNDA CHELDELIN FELL On grief. We know where we've been. We know where we want to be.
WYLIE R. WEEKS The portrait of his past was partially erased by God and he is searching for those erased portions.
DURGESH SATPATHY Grief is subversive, undermining the quiet agreement to behave and be in control of our emotions. It...
FRANCIS WELLER All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to...
NICOLE KRAUSS Grief is hard on friendships, but it doesn't have to be. Sometimes, all it takes is a little honesty...
MARGARET BROWNLEY Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
SWEDISH PROVERB Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.
DAVID MITCHELL Love is an engraved invitation to grief.
SUNSHINE O'DONNELL I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a love...
TORI AMOS Yesterday, the focus was very much on grief and trying to do what was necessary for the basic needs ...
PHILIP GREEN Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man.
MIYAMOTO MUSASHI Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it had only one heart; grief, two tear-...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human natu...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY When you lose a child, you grieve once because you have lost her, when you are barren, you grieve ev...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Journey becomes difficult when we know the destination but not aware of the right path, may be the s...
DURGESH SATPATHY Every love story is a potential grief story.
JULIAN BARNES Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Grieving is an expression of gratitude, and that expression doesn't have to be rushed.
CAROLYN WELLS And at the same time, what we really had to try and do was set aside our own grief to take care of t...
BRUCE STOUT Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.
ALISON BECHDEL Grief is a gift. It makes us stop and be aware of the other person's significance. It makes us stop ...
JOHN B. BEJO See that's exactly why I don't want a dog." "Why?" "Because it'll just die." "Everybody dies, Brookl...
LISA SCHROEDER Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cann...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE The thought filled me with grief, grief for the dreams we'd shared, for the love I'd felt, for the h...
LEIGH BARDUGO I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.
GERRY ADAMS a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -
But the pain of grief
Is only a s...
HILARY STANTON ZUNIN Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Love is a debt, she thought. When the bill comes, you pay in grief.
MARY DORIA RUSSELL But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordina...
LEO TOLSTOY There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There is no grief like the grief that does not speak
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW [T]here can be a form of vanity in grief that is indulged rather than suffered.
IAIN M. BANKS I would try to find joy despite the necessary work of grieving, and I knew full well that work was e...
ELIZABETH BERG I felt my aloneness like a coat. You think you get used to death in the dying. But after the dying i...
ELIZABETH BERG No one knew she cried in the night for Lyle and her lost happiness, that under that biscuit crust ex...
DOROTHY ALLISON I was in love and love died and the pain you've left isn't pain I can see myself having the strength...
ADAM SILVERA Just as it is impossible to explain childbirth to a woman who has never given birth, it is impossibl...
LYNDA CHELDELIN FELL Perhaps ...
To R.A.L.

Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,
And I shall s...
VERA BRITTAIN Grief and greed are as inextricably entwined as love and marriage should be.
ANN KENT You think the final act of love is setting them free to Rainbow Bridge? That is not the final act of...
KATE MCGAHAN Even extreme grief may ultimately vent
itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of...
JOSEPH CONRAD Grief shared is half grief; Joy shared is double joy.
HONDURAN PROVERB I don’t snore.”
He nodded with a wide grin. “It’s a quiet peaceful kind of snoring. Lik...
ILONA ANDREWS But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the mo...
SARAH DUNANT Odin, not unlike Charlie Brown, sighed, “Good grief,” then added, “Why are we going to let thi...
DYLAN CALLENS I know you are afraid; you are afraid to get hurt again. But I also know that you are not meant to g...
CHRISTINA RASMUSSEN And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
FRAN DRESCHER Everyone who lives long enough to love deeply will experience great losses. Don't let fear of loss, ...
BARBARA "CUTIE" COOPER Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.
ILONA ANDREWS If we can’t feel into the heart of grief, we can’t truly move on to experience hope and joy. We ...
SHARON WEIL Kid 1: *examining my gorgeous strawberry and blueberry pies*: Wow, Mom, your pies don’t look awful...
ILONA ANDREWS Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and...
OLIVIA SUDJIC I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal rela...
WANG JIANLIN It was something new for her. New roads, new people, new places, new opportunities and new perspecti...
KATE MCGAHAN was being looked at in a way that had him doomed from the start.
ERIC WARNER It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect...
HILARY THAYER HAMANN Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if na...
JOSEPH ADDISON Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
JOSEPH ADDISON Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I...
PAM FERRIS The grief they have experienced has made them more empathetic to the grief of others,
BILL DOYLE It is our ultimate goal to hold UCI accountable for the clear harm and grief that it has caused our ...
MARK QUIGLEY Grief is a normal and natural response to loss. It is originally an unlearned feeling process. Keepi...
ANNE GRANT Hi, Your Majesty, we drugged your love muffin and then let her walk out into the dark, in the sn...
ILONA ANDREWS The relationship based on the love of Allah remains forever, it goes far beyond the limitations of s...
MUHAMMAD ABDULLAH JAVED All the whackjob psychologists out there will tell you that grief is a process. Some say it has five...
REBECCA MCNUTT Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life
BENJAMIN DISRAELI A whole Gothic world had come to grief...there was now no armour glittering through the forest glade...
EVELYN WAUGH And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a...
SARAH WATERS In youth one has tears without grief, in old age grief without tears.
JEAN PAUL I'm sure I'll get some grief from it, that's to be expected. I guess I'd rather be taking the grief ...
MATT CARLE While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON This was a hideous action and it caused great grief and frustration for so many people.
BRENDAN MALLON And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
FRAN DRESCHER O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy na...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies...
F. SIONIL JOSE So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI

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I raised my chin at him. “If you tried...
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“ ‘Panic’?...
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He showed her his teeth. "Yes.
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She had no ...
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He rolled his head back, sable hair falling down on his shoulders. "With ...
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"No."
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ILONA ANDREWS Say 'pop.'"
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"...
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"It's our middle name," Andrea added.
For some odd reaso...
ILONA ANDREWS He glued the chair to my ass."
Silence.
"Is it still...attached?"
"I can't get it off...
ILONA ANDREWS Who is Hunter Becker?"
"Becker the Gory? Lighthouse Keepers? Boston?"
"I would've preferre...
ILONA ANDREWS We don't need teenage bouda sex fiends as interns.
How do you know he is a sex fiend?
He i...
ILONA ANDREWS Would you like to work here with me?
We have no clients and the pay is shit.
ILONA ANDREWS Aha," Andrea said. "I'm going to ignore that you just referred to yourself as 'sugar woogums'.
ILONA ANDREWS What do you mean fainted?
Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after...
ILONA ANDREWS I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I ...
ILONA ANDREWS Are you sure you know where you're going?" Andrea frowned.
"Would you like me to pull over and ...
ILONA ANDREWS It’s your duty as my best friend to be outraged with me.”
“I’m outraged!” I snarled....
ILONA ANDREWS I have a serious question."

"I will give a serious answer."

"Can a god be kill...
ILONA ANDREWS I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board
ILONA ANDREWS The dark scary servant of all evil was on his way to rescue me. Somehow that thought failed to make ...
ILONA ANDREWS Your favorite volhv showed up half an hour ago, complaining about his lack of sleep and stupid gods....
ILONA ANDREWS Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers.
ILONA ANDREWS The door swung open and Kate walked in. Her jeans and T-shirt were splattered with blood and she was...
ILONA ANDREWS My mind struggled to formulate a coherent though, any thought. I opened my mouth. "Your pajamas have...
ILONA ANDREWS Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.
ILONA ANDREWS I was so happy to be out of there. “Barabas, if you weren’t batting
for the other team, I�...
ILONA ANDREWS I gave him my Order smile: sweet grin, hard eyes, reached over to my passenger seat, and pulled out ...
ILONA ANDREWS You think this is some sort of comedy going on here?” Collins gave him his tough stare.
A lit...
ILONA ANDREWS Bad days, good days, ‘I’ll cut you if you look at me the wrong way’ days. I’ll take them all...
ILONA ANDREWS You’re touching me,” I chided him.
He caressed my back, sliding his hand down, hitting eve...
ILONA ANDREWS Raphael turned me over and looked at me, his face close to mine. "You and I will never be done.You'r...
ILONA ANDREWS Are you implying that our relationship is like a Spanish soap opera?”

“I’m not imp...
ILONA ANDREWS Kate stood by the door with her arms crossed.
That was an anti-Curran pose. What the hell was t...
ILONA ANDREWS Someone pounded on the office door. Barabas moved to the door, slid aside the metal shutter covering...
ILONA ANDREWS My tablecloth was missing in action and long, jagged scratches covered the table's surface.The scrat...
ILONA ANDREWS Since we’re playing that game… I tilted my face up to his and gave him a lovesick gaze.
“...
ILONA ANDREWS The rage of the Beast Lord was a terrible thing to behold. Some people stormed, some punched things,...
ILONA ANDREWS At first glance you looked at Kate and thought “fighter,” maybe merc. Five inches taller than me...
ILONA ANDREWS Curran and Kate stood by the door.
“I can’t believe you decided to come down here and check...
ILONA ANDREWS You’re the most experienced investigator I’ve got who’s not tied up in something, and I can’...
ILONA ANDREWS Kate smirked.
"What?"
"Your horse looks pink."
"So?"
"If you paste some stars on...
ILONA ANDREWS It’s never a good thing when the black volhv says “Uh-oh” and then runs for his life.
ILONA ANDREWS Our standard rate. A doubloon a day."
It was generous. More than generous--some families would ...
ILONA ANDREWS So, regarding that tidbit about your having a fertile imagination when it comes to private activitie...
ILONA ANDREWS Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring...
ILONA ANDREWS The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell a...
ILONA ANDREWS Fuck the pack. I gave them fifteen years of my life. I fought for them, bled for them, and the momen...
ILONA ANDREWS Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it!
ILONA ANDREWS I'm welding the bimbo room shut.
ILONA ANDREWS Was his body made out of orange rocks and did he at any point yell 'It's clobbering time'?"
"I ...
ILONA ANDREWS You should name him Fezzik."
"Inconceivable.
ILONA ANDREWS