When you’re shivering with loss, let love keep you warm with memories.
—Terri Guillemets
When you’re shivering with loss, let love keep you warm with memories.
—Terri Guillemets
A headstone is just a bookmark in our unfinished lives.
—Terri Guillemets
May you lose a lot that matters to you
a few times in your life—
May you make and remake and
remake yourself over and again
and burn yourself right down
to ashen smoking embers
of bone and grit and soul—
So that you may always know
the pain of rock bottom
the freedom of rebirth
the hope of revival
the gift of perspective
the awareness of your strength—
May you lose but live again.
—Terri Guillemets
Loss — the great redefiner of life.
—Terri Guillemets
Death is never a clean break — some stardust always remains.
—Terri Guillemets
Grief is looking up
and seeing Never
at your window —
rapping on the pane
of your heart —
—Terri Guillemets
Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.
—Terri Guillemets
graves are not limited
to the cemetery —
they lurk in our minds,
and buried in our hearts
lie garlanded stones
marking loved ones lost
—Terri Guillemets
Death is not warden of life, not thief, nor enemy — but Life’s most equal partner.
—Terri Guillemets
Dying ain’t pretty. Death is beautiful.
—Terri Guillemets
The death of a loved one is a sudden silence — one of those deafening silences that leaves ringing in your ears.
—Terri Guillemets
Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love.
—Terri Guillemets