💫 Longing And Loss

Stories suffused with the ache of what's gone—loved ones, places, former selves—where grief and desire intertwine into something quietly devastating.

The Name of the World

by Denis Johnson • 2000

A grieving professor perfects the art of being unseen, until a bold young cellist demands otherwise.

3.55

3k+

🏛️ Campus Novel 💔 Widower Protagonist 🌧️ Quiet Melancholy

The Name of the World 88%

A grieving professor perfects the art of being unseen, until a bold young cellist demands otherwise.

by Denis Johnson 2000

3.55

3k+ ratings

🏛️ Campus Novel 💔 Widower Protagonist 🌧️ Quiet Melancholy

Norwegian Wood

by Haruki Murakami • 1987

Best friend's suicide traps a Tokyo student between a fading woman and one pulling him back.

3.99

739k+

🖤 Melancholy Romance 💔 Survivor'S Guilt 🕯️ Grief And Intimacy

Norwegian Wood 87%

Best friend's suicide traps a Tokyo student between a fading woman and one pulling him back.

by Haruki Murakami 1987

3.99

739k+ ratings

🖤 Melancholy Romance 💔 Survivor'S Guilt 🕯️ Grief And Intimacy

Lost & Found

by Kathryn Schulz • 2022

A father lost, a wife found: the discovery that grief and joy are not opposites.

4.11

10k+

🕊️ Grief And Mourning 🔍 Loss And Finding ❤️ Romantic Love

Lost & Found 87%

A father lost, a wife found: the discovery that grief and joy are not opposites.

by Kathryn Schulz 2022

4.11

10k+ ratings

🕊️ Grief And Mourning 🔍 Loss And Finding ❤️ Romantic Love

Pearl

by Siân Hughes • 2023

A mother vanishes, leaving her daughter folk songs, rituals, and an unanswerable question.

3.84

7k+

🕯️ Missing Mother 🖤 Inherited Grief 🌿 Folk Grief Rituals

Pearl 87%

A mother vanishes, leaving her daughter folk songs, rituals, and an unanswerable question.

by Siân Hughes 2023

3.84

7k+ ratings

🕯️ Missing Mother 🖤 Inherited Grief 🌿 Folk Grief Rituals

El amor, las mujeres y la vida

by Mario Benedetti • 1995

Love as daily resistance to death: a poet's half-century of intimacy, absence, and stubborn hope.

4.21

6k+

🗺️ Latin American Poetry 💝 Love Poetry 🏠 Everyday Intimacy

El amor, las mujeres y la vida 87%

Love as daily resistance to death: a poet's half-century of intimacy, absence, and stubborn hope.

by Mario Benedetti 1995

4.21

6k+ ratings

🗺️ Latin American Poetry 💝 Love Poetry 🏠 Everyday Intimacy

Things in Nature Merely Grow

by Yiyun Li • 2025

The worst loss has no name. After both sons die by suicide, a novelist inhabits it.

4.34

15k+

👼 Child Loss 🖤 Suicide Loss 🌀 Grief Without Closure

Things in Nature Merely Grow 87%

The worst loss has no name. After both sons die by suicide, a novelist inhabits it.

by Yiyun Li 2025

4.34

15k+ ratings

👼 Child Loss 🖤 Suicide Loss 🌀 Grief Without Closure

you left me on read

by akhira • 2023

When the reply never arrives, the answer is the one you give yourself.

3.73

1k+

💌 Modern Love 📝 Instapoetry 💔 Unrequited Love

you left me on read 87%

When the reply never arrives, the answer is the one you give yourself.

by akhira 2023

3.73

1k+ ratings

💌 Modern Love 📝 Instapoetry 💔 Unrequited Love

The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran • 1923

After twelve years of exile, a prophet's ship arrives, and the city gathers for his parting truths.

4.23

332k+

🕊️ Mystical Poetry 📜 Prose Poem 📖 Wisdom Literature

The Prophet 87%

After twelve years of exile, a prophet's ship arrives, and the city gathers for his parting truths.

by Kahlil Gibran 1923

4.23

332k+ ratings

🕊️ Mystical Poetry 📜 Prose Poem 📖 Wisdom Literature

Letters to Milena

by Franz Kafka • 1952

Prague to Vienna. A dying writer, a married woman, and a love affair conducted by post.

3.93

26k+

✉️ Epistolary Romance 📜 Literary Correspondence 💔 Impossible Love

Letters to Milena 87%

Prague to Vienna. A dying writer, a married woman, and a love affair conducted by post.

by Franz Kafka 1952

3.93

26k+ ratings

✉️ Epistolary Romance 📜 Literary Correspondence 💔 Impossible Love

God Does His Best Work with Empty

by Nancy Guthrie • 2020

Loss and loneliness are not signs of God's absence but the places he comes closest.

4.48

2k+

😰 Suffering And Faith 🙏 Christian Living 😢 Grief And Loss

God Does His Best Work with Empty Summary

God Does His Best Work with Empty 87%

Loss and loneliness are not signs of God's absence but the places he comes closest.

by Nancy Guthrie 2020

4.48

2k+ ratings

😰 Suffering And Faith 🙏 Christian Living 😢 Grief And Loss

If He Had Been With Me

by Laura Nowlin • 2013

She always loved the boy next door. She never told him. Now she never will.

3.78

598k+

🖤 Tragic Romance 💕 Friends To Lovers 💔 Unspoken Love

If He Had Been With Me 87%

She always loved the boy next door. She never told him. Now she never will.

by Laura Nowlin 2013

3.78

598k+ ratings

🖤 Tragic Romance 💕 Friends To Lovers 💔 Unspoken Love

All Those Things We Never Said

by Marc Levy • 2008

Her dead father returns as an android: six days of battery, a lifetime of silence to undo.

3.87

15k+

🖤 Estranged Parent 💔 Lost First Love ✨ Speculative Romance

All Those Things We Never Said 87%

Her dead father returns as an android: six days of battery, a lifetime of silence to undo.

by Marc Levy 2008

3.87

15k+ ratings

🖤 Estranged Parent 💔 Lost First Love ✨ Speculative Romance

IGNORANCE (L') by MILAN KUNDERA

by Milan Kundera • 2000

Twenty years after fleeing Prague, an émigrée returns to discover she no longer belongs.

3.81

28k+

🛫 Exile Literature 🤔 Philosophical Fiction 🏚️ Post-Communist Europe

IGNORANCE (L') by MILAN KUNDERA 87%

Twenty years after fleeing Prague, an émigrée returns to discover she no longer belongs.

by Milan Kundera 2000

3.81

28k+ ratings

🛫 Exile Literature 🤔 Philosophical Fiction 🏚️ Post-Communist Europe

Eres el amor de mi otra vida

by Gilraen Eärfalas • 2024

Her partner is a painter whose only subject is another woman. That woman exists.

3.92

5k+

🥀 Bittersweet Romance 🎨 Artist And Muse 👻 The One Who Got Away

Eres el amor de mi otra vida 87%

Her partner is a painter whose only subject is another woman. That woman exists.

by Gilraen Eärfalas 2024

3.92

5k+ ratings

🥀 Bittersweet Romance 🎨 Artist And Muse 👻 The One Who Got Away

White Nights

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky • 1848

Over four white nights, a lonely dreamer offers his heart to a girl waiting for another.

4.07

370k+

🖤 Unrequited Love 💔 Bittersweet Ending 🧍 Lonely Narrator

White Nights 87%

Over four white nights, a lonely dreamer offers his heart to a girl waiting for another.

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1848

4.07

370k+ ratings

🖤 Unrequited Love 💔 Bittersweet Ending 🧍 Lonely Narrator

Grief Is for People

by Sloane Crosley • 2024

A burglar took her jewelry. A suicide took her friend. Only one loss she could chase.

3.83

18k+

💔 Suicide Loss 👥 Friendship Grief 📿 Objects And Memory

Grief Is for People 87%

A burglar took her jewelry. A suicide took her friend. Only one loss she could chase.

by Sloane Crosley 2024

3.83

18k+ ratings

💔 Suicide Loss 👥 Friendship Grief 📿 Objects And Memory

A Widow's Story

by Joyce Carol Oates • 2011

Her husband of 48 years dies overnight. That morning, a call: she might have won the Nobel.

3.76

4k+

🖤 Spousal Loss 📖 Bereavement Memoir ⚡ Sudden Death

A Widow's Story 86%

Her husband of 48 years dies overnight. That morning, a call: she might have won the Nobel.

by Joyce Carol Oates 2011

3.76

4k+ ratings

🖤 Spousal Loss 📖 Bereavement Memoir ⚡ Sudden Death

Guitar Notes

by Mary Amato • 2012

A cellist and guitarist trade notes in a practice room that become their only honest conversations.

4.04

6k+

🎵 Musical Coming Of Age 🎻 Opposites Attract 📝 Secret Friendship

Guitar Notes 86%

A cellist and guitarist trade notes in a practice room that become their only honest conversations.

by Mary Amato 2012

4.04

6k+ ratings

🎵 Musical Coming Of Age 🎻 Opposites Attract 📝 Secret Friendship

At Certain Points We Touch

by Lauren John Joseph • 2022

A neon sign jolts a trans writer to recount their doomed love affair with a dead photographer.

3.62

1k+

🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Narrative 💔 Doomed Romance 🌃 Queer Nightlife

At Certain Points We Touch 86%

A neon sign jolts a trans writer to recount their doomed love affair with a dead photographer.

by Lauren John Joseph 2022

3.62

1k+ ratings

🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender Narrative 💔 Doomed Romance 🌃 Queer Nightlife

Death and the Gardener

by Georgi Gospodinov • 2024

A son tends his dying father, a gardener, finding that stories root where words cannot.

4.44

13k+

🕯️ Parental Loss 🪢 Father-Son Bond 🏥 Terminal Illness

Death and the Gardener 86%

A son tends his dying father, a gardener, finding that stories root where words cannot.

by Georgi Gospodinov 2024

4.44

13k+ ratings

🕯️ Parental Loss 🪢 Father-Son Bond 🏥 Terminal Illness

To Selena, With Love

by Chris Pérez • 2012

A hidden romance. A secret wedding. A rising star. And the phone call that ended it all.

4.65

10k+

🎸 Music Memoirs 💔 Grief And Loss 🎤 Behind The Music

To Selena, With Love 86%

A hidden romance. A secret wedding. A rising star. And the phone call that ended it all.

by Chris Pérez 2012

4.65

10k+ ratings

🎸 Music Memoirs 💔 Grief And Loss 🎤 Behind The Music

The Most Beautiful

by Mayte Garcia • 2017

129 shows, a secret wedding, a lost baby, a sudden death: his wife finally tells her story.

4.13

7k+

📖 Celebrity Memoir 🎵 Music Memoir 🕊️ Child Loss

The Most Beautiful 86%

129 shows, a secret wedding, a lost baby, a sudden death: his wife finally tells her story.

by Mayte Garcia 2017

4.13

7k+ ratings

📖 Celebrity Memoir 🎵 Music Memoir 🕊️ Child Loss

A Heart That Works

by Rob Delaney • 2022

Henry was diagnosed at one, dead by two. His father, a comedian, tells what happened in between.

4.62

35k+

🕯️ Child Loss 💔 Parental Grief 🏥 Medical Memoir

A Heart That Works 86%

Henry was diagnosed at one, dead by two. His father, a comedian, tells what happened in between.

by Rob Delaney 2022

4.62

35k+ ratings

🕯️ Child Loss 💔 Parental Grief 🏥 Medical Memoir

Schoolgirl

by Osamu Dazai • 1939

A grieving Japanese schoolgirl spends a day navigating pretense and the hunger to feel real.

3.96

26k+

🧠 Stream Of Consciousness 😞 Adolescent Angst 🕯️ Parental Loss

Schoolgirl 86%

A grieving Japanese schoolgirl spends a day navigating pretense and the hunger to feel real.

by Osamu Dazai 1939

3.96

26k+ ratings

🧠 Stream Of Consciousness 😞 Adolescent Angst 🕯️ Parental Loss

How to Fix a Broken Heart

by Guy Winch • 2018

Your brain treats heartbreak like drug withdrawal. So why does nobody tell you how to detox?

4.15

4k+

💔 Heartbreak Recovery 🖤 Grief And Loss 🤗 Self-Compassion

How to Fix a Broken Heart 86%

Your brain treats heartbreak like drug withdrawal. So why does nobody tell you how to detox?

by Guy Winch 2018

4.15

4k+ ratings

💔 Heartbreak Recovery 🖤 Grief And Loss 🤗 Self-Compassion

The Zahir

by Paulo Coelho • 2006

His wife vanished. His search becomes an obsession, pulling him from Paris to the Kazakh steppe.

3.58

84k+

🧠 Philosophical Fiction ✨ Spiritual Journey 🔍 Missing Wife

The Zahir 86%

His wife vanished. His search becomes an obsession, pulling him from Paris to the Kazakh steppe.

by Paulo Coelho 2006

3.58

84k+ ratings

🧠 Philosophical Fiction ✨ Spiritual Journey 🔍 Missing Wife

The Dinner List

by Rebecca Serle • 2018

Five impossible guests at her birthday dinner, each one holding a piece of the past she buried.

3.54

59k+

🥀 Bittersweet Romance 💔 The One Who Got Away 🕊️ Father-Daughter Healing

The Dinner List 86%

Five impossible guests at her birthday dinner, each one holding a piece of the past she buried.

by Rebecca Serle 2018

3.54

59k+ ratings

🥀 Bittersweet Romance 💔 The One Who Got Away 🕊️ Father-Daughter Healing

Where Reasons End

by Yiyun Li • 2019

After her son's suicide, a mother conjures him in conversation, testing what words can hold.

3.77

6k+

🪞 Metafiction 💔 Grief Without Closure 👩‍👦 Mother Son Bond

Where Reasons End 86%

After her son's suicide, a mother conjures him in conversation, testing what words can hold.

by Yiyun Li 2019

3.77

6k+ ratings

🪞 Metafiction 💔 Grief Without Closure 👩‍👦 Mother Son Bond

Delirious

by Damien Wilkins • 2024

Thirty years on, their son's killer wants to meet. Mary and Pete are leaving his home.

3.83

885

😔 Grieving Parents 👴 Aging Couple 🏘️ Retirement Community

Delirious 86%

Thirty years on, their son's killer wants to meet. Mary and Pete are leaving his home.

by Damien Wilkins 2024

3.83

885 ratings

😔 Grieving Parents 👴 Aging Couple 🏘️ Retirement Community

I Don't Love You Anymore

by Rithvik Singh • 2024

A poetic voice traces the path from goodbye to the quiet discovery of wholeness within.

3.86

3k+

🖋️ Poetic Self-Help 💔 Heartbreak Recovery 🌸 Self-Love Journey

I Don't Love You Anymore 86%

A poetic voice traces the path from goodbye to the quiet discovery of wholeness within.

by Rithvik Singh 2024

3.86

3k+ ratings

🖋️ Poetic Self-Help 💔 Heartbreak Recovery 🌸 Self-Love Journey

The Time Traveler's Wife

by Audrey Niffenegger • 2003

When a time traveler meets his wife, she has already loved him since she was six years old.

4.00

1.9M+

🔗 Time-Crossed Lovers ✨ Fated Love 🖋️ Lyrical Prose

The Time Traveler's Wife 86%

When a time traveler meets his wife, she has already loved him since she was six years old.

by Audrey Niffenegger 2003

4.00

1.9M+ ratings

🔗 Time-Crossed Lovers ✨ Fated Love 🖋️ Lyrical Prose

Falling in Love Again

by Ruskin Bond • 2013

His love stories all end with a departing train and a face he will never see again.

3.64

2k+

🖤 Unrequited Love 🚂 Chance Encounters 🌅 Memory And Nostalgia

Falling in Love Again 86%

His love stories all end with a departing train and a face he will never see again.

by Ruskin Bond 2013

3.64

2k+ ratings

🖤 Unrequited Love 🚂 Chance Encounters 🌅 Memory And Nostalgia

Unspoken Feelings of a Gentleman II

by Pierre Alex Jeanty • 2016

The hidden emotional world of men: loneliness, hunger for love, wounds that turn them cold.

4.35

220

🖋 Modern Poetry 💔 Male Vulnerability 🔒 Unrequited Love

Unspoken Feelings of a Gentleman II Summary

Unspoken Feelings of a Gentleman II 86%

The hidden emotional world of men: loneliness, hunger for love, wounds that turn them cold.

by Pierre Alex Jeanty 2016

4.35

220 ratings

🖋 Modern Poetry 💔 Male Vulnerability 🔒 Unrequited Love

The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

by Stuart Ross • 2022

A poet tries to face grief directly, accidentally writes a book about why he can't.

3.84

189

🖋️ Poetic Memoir 🕯️ Grief Memoir 🛡️ Emotional Avoidance

The Book of Grief and Hamburgers Summary

The Book of Grief and Hamburgers 86%

A poet tries to face grief directly, accidentally writes a book about why he can't.

by Stuart Ross 2022

3.84

189 ratings

🖋️ Poetic Memoir 🕯️ Grief Memoir 🛡️ Emotional Avoidance

This Is All

by Aidan Chambers • 2005

Pregnant at nineteen, Cordelia pours her teenage years into a pillow book for her unborn daughter.

4.31

2k+

📖 Diary Format Novel 📚 Literary YA 💕 First Love

This Is All 86%

Pregnant at nineteen, Cordelia pours her teenage years into a pillow book for her unborn daughter.

by Aidan Chambers 2005

4.31

2k+ ratings

📖 Diary Format Novel 📚 Literary YA 💕 First Love

The Child in Time

by Ian McEwan • 1987

A children's author searches for his vanished daughter while time and memory warp around him.

3.58

15k+

🧒 Missing Child 💔 Marital Grief ⏳ Nonlinear Time

The Child in Time 86%

A children's author searches for his vanished daughter while time and memory warp around him.

by Ian McEwan 1987

3.58

15k+ ratings

🧒 Missing Child 💔 Marital Grief ⏳ Nonlinear Time

Ghost Rider

by Neil Peart • 2002

Two deaths in a year. One motorcycle. 55,000 miles, and grief refused to be left behind.

4.12

7k+

🪦 Grief Memoir 🏍️ Motorcycle Travel 🛣️ Healing Through Motion

Ghost Rider 86%

Two deaths in a year. One motorcycle. 55,000 miles, and grief refused to be left behind.

by Neil Peart 2002

4.12

7k+ ratings

🪦 Grief Memoir 🏍️ Motorcycle Travel 🛣️ Healing Through Motion

Sisterhood Everlasting

by Ann Brashares • 2011

Four friends reunite in Santorini, but the woman who called them has drowned.

3.91

39k+

👯 Grown Up Friendship 💕 Second Chance Love 👧 Childhood Friends

Sisterhood Everlasting 86%

Four friends reunite in Santorini, but the woman who called them has drowned.

by Ann Brashares 2011

3.91

39k+ ratings

👯 Grown Up Friendship 💕 Second Chance Love 👧 Childhood Friends

Mr Salary

by Sally Rooney • 2016

For her dying father, she returns to Dublin and the older man she has never left.

3.73

43k+

📚 Literary Romance 🕰️ Age Gap 💭 Unspoken Attraction

Mr Salary 86%

For her dying father, she returns to Dublin and the older man she has never left.

by Sally Rooney 2016

3.73

43k+ ratings

📚 Literary Romance 🕰️ Age Gap 💭 Unspoken Attraction

Walk the Blue Fields

by Claire Keegan • 2007

A priest marries off his love, then finds release in the hands of a stranger.

3.99

14k+

🌾 Rural Ireland 🔒 Family Secrets 💔 Repressed Desire

Walk the Blue Fields 86%

A priest marries off his love, then finds release in the hands of a stranger.

by Claire Keegan 2007

3.99

14k+ ratings

🌾 Rural Ireland 🔒 Family Secrets 💔 Repressed Desire

Thank You for Leaving

by Rithvik Singh • 2025

A poetic guide to healing a broken heart: how vulnerability, friendship, and tiny joys repair you.

3.99

1k+

💔 Heartbreak Recovery 📝 Poetic Self-Help 🧸 Inner Child Work

Thank You for Leaving 86%

A poetic guide to healing a broken heart: how vulnerability, friendship, and tiny joys repair you.

by Rithvik Singh 2025

3.99

1k+ ratings

💔 Heartbreak Recovery 📝 Poetic Self-Help 🧸 Inner Child Work

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

by Nick Flynn • 2004

His estranged father walked into the shelter where he worked. Helping him meant becoming him.

3.80

12k+

👤 Absent Fathers 🏚️ Homelessness In America 🍷 Addiction And Family

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City Summary

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City 86%

His estranged father walked into the shelter where he worked. Helping him meant becoming him.

by Nick Flynn 2004

3.80

12k+ ratings

👤 Absent Fathers 🏚️ Homelessness In America 🍷 Addiction And Family

The Thing About Jellyfish

by Ali Benjamin • 2015

After her best friend drowns, a girl stops speaking and searches for answers in jellyfish.

4.10

45k+

🔬 Young Scientist 🤫 Chosen Silence 💔 Grieving A Friend

The Thing About Jellyfish 86%

After her best friend drowns, a girl stops speaking and searches for answers in jellyfish.

by Ali Benjamin 2015

4.10

45k+ ratings

🔬 Young Scientist 🤫 Chosen Silence 💔 Grieving A Friend

Broken Country

by Clare Leslie Hall • 2025

A farmer's wife loved another man. Her husband is dead. The police demand the truth.

4.27

678k+

🏞️ Pastoral Tragedy 💔 Love Triangle 🔄 First Love Returns

Broken Country 86%

A farmer's wife loved another man. Her husband is dead. The police demand the truth.

by Clare Leslie Hall 2025

4.27

678k+ ratings

🏞️ Pastoral Tragedy 💔 Love Triangle 🔄 First Love Returns

The Savage Detectives

by Roberto Bolaño • 1998

Mexico City, 1970s. Young poets abandon their lives to hunt a vanished writer across the desert.

4.18

54k+

📚 Literary Underground ✒️ Failed Poets 🗣️ Oral History

The Savage Detectives 86%

Mexico City, 1970s. Young poets abandon their lives to hunt a vanished writer across the desert.

by Roberto Bolaño 1998

4.18

54k+ ratings

📚 Literary Underground ✒️ Failed Poets 🗣️ Oral History

The Year of Magical Thinking

by Joan Didion • 2005

Sudden death shatters reason. The irrational rituals grief demands, observed by a master stylist.

3.93

308k+

🪦 Grief Memoir 📖 Literary Memoir 💔 Sudden Loss

The Year of Magical Thinking 86%

Sudden death shatters reason. The irrational rituals grief demands, observed by a master stylist.

by Joan Didion 2005

3.93

308k+ ratings

🪦 Grief Memoir 📖 Literary Memoir 💔 Sudden Loss

Toda la felicidad del universo

by César Brandon Ndjocu • 2018

A son pieces together a childhood of violence, searching poetry for the words his family buried.

3.82

411

🖋️ Prose Poetry 🔀 Fragmentary Narrative 💔 Family Trauma

Toda la felicidad del universo 86%

A son pieces together a childhood of violence, searching poetry for the words his family buried.

by César Brandon Ndjocu 2018

3.82

411 ratings

🖋️ Prose Poetry 🔀 Fragmentary Narrative 💔 Family Trauma

Jude the Obscure

by Thomas Hardy • 1895

A stonemason dreams of Oxford, but love for his cousin and a cruel marriage ruin him.

3.84

76k+

❤️ Forbidden Love 🎓 Thwarted Ambition 💍 Marriage Critique

Jude the Obscure 86%

A stonemason dreams of Oxford, but love for his cousin and a cruel marriage ruin him.

by Thomas Hardy 1895

3.84

76k+ ratings

❤️ Forbidden Love 🎓 Thwarted Ambition 💍 Marriage Critique

Tutte le poesie

by Eugenio Montale • 1984

A Nobel poet's map of the world: lemon trees, cuttlefish bones, and a single flawed link.

4.63

750

🎭 Italian Poetry 🎭 Modernist Poetry 🎭 Existential Despair

Tutte le poesie 86%

A Nobel poet's map of the world: lemon trees, cuttlefish bones, and a single flawed link.

by Eugenio Montale 1984

4.63

750 ratings

🎭 Italian Poetry 🎭 Modernist Poetry 🎭 Existential Despair

This Is Me Letting You Go

by Heidi Priebe • 2016

Perfect timing is a convenient lie: how to let go, forgive, and bet on yourself.

4.03

13k+

💔 Heartbreak Recovery 🧩 Self-Acceptance 🚪 Relationship Endings

This Is Me Letting You Go 86%

Perfect timing is a convenient lie: how to let go, forgive, and bet on yourself.

by Heidi Priebe 2016

4.03

13k+ ratings

💔 Heartbreak Recovery 🧩 Self-Acceptance 🚪 Relationship Endings

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