Author of quotes: Joan Didion

Sorrow is a land that no one has a clue about until he has been there himself. We know we can lose a loved one. Getting ready to experience the shock. But we do not expect this shock to be so strong. That grief will really deprive us of our reason, and we will begin to keep my husband's shoes, hoping for his early return. It is also not given to us to know in advance that inescapable feeling of loneliness and emptiness with which from now on we have to wander in search of justification for our own life.