“But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet
“I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.”
Source: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
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