Grief is a tricky thing, you know? You just can’t prepare for how it’s gonna make you feel or how you’ll handle it. Sometimes you just got to grab onto whatever’s around you just to survive.[to Sophie]
Funerals are weird, aren’t they? They’re like a party, but for sad people. Like where everyone knows they have to go and be sad. Maybe you’re not sad, but you have to go and be sad.
Death isn’t so much about missing the person, but missing the relationship you could have had with them.
Back on the horse. That’s the way we honor the people we lose.
Anger is a part of it. Part of the grieving.
A word of advice in your time of mourning. Grief can make us act rashly. You should resist those impulses.[to Hayama]
A mother who has lost her child sheds more tears than the sea.