Possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people’s suffering. - Alex Michaelides

Freud’s writings about grief and loss. And he argued that, following the death of a loved one, the loss had to be psychologically accepted and that person relinquished, or else you ran the risk of succumbing to pathological mourning, which he called melancholia—and we call depression.

Ruth always said that forgiveness could not be coerced – it was experienced spontaneously, as an act of grace, appearing only when a person was ready.

That was the horror of it. We all secretly hope that tragedy will only ever happen to other people... sooner or later, it happens to you.