Quote from David Lindsay-Abaire's "Rabbit Hole"

Spoken by Nat to Becca in David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole (about grief and the loss of a child)

...At some point it becomes bearable. It turns into something you can crawl out from under. And carry around-like a brick in your pocket. And you forget it every once in a while, but then you reach in for whatever reason and there it is: "Oh right. That." Which can be awful. But not all the time. Sometimes it's kinda....Not that you like it exactly, but it's what you have instead of your son, so you don't wanna let go of it either. So you carry it around. And it doesn't go away...