“ We need to talk about the hierarchy of grief. You hear it all the time—no grief is worse than any other. I don’t think that’s one bit true. There is a hierarchy of grief. Divorce is not the same as th… Megan Devine
“ When you try to take someone's pain away from them, you don't make it better. You just tell them it's not OK to talk about their pain. Megan Devine
“ True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the way forward. Megan Devine
“ Every loss is valid. And every loss is not the same. You can't flatten the landscape of grief and say that everything is equal. It isn't. Megan Devine
“ The reality of grief is far different from what others see from the outside. There is pain in this world that you can't be cheered out of. You don't need solutions. You don't need to move on from your… Megan Devine
“ What we all share in common - the real reason for this book - is a desire to love better. To love ourselves in the midst of great pain, and to love another when the pain of this life grows too large f… Megan Devine
“ Some things cannot be fixed; they can only be carried. Grief like yours, love like yours, can only be carried.Survival in grief, even eventually building a new life alongside grief, comes with the wil… Megan Devine
“ Acknowledgment--being seen and heard and witnessed inside the truth about one's own life--is the only real medicine of grief. Megan Devine
