Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation. None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve. To face death is to stand alone.

Toll the Hounds: Book Eight of The Malazan Book of the Fallen (ed. Macmillan, 2008) - ISBN: 9781429926997