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I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.

Jodi Picoult
Grief, Thinking, Ugly
Jodi Picoult (2014). “Leaving Time (with bonus novella Larger Than Life): A Novel”, p.182, Ballantine Books
I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.