"Grief and love are forever intertwined"
About this Quote
The intent is therapeutic and communal. "Forever" matters: it rejects the cultural script that treats grief as a problem to solve on a timeline. By pairing grief with love, she sidesteps the more abrasive language of trauma or rage, smoothing the rough edges into something narratable in a book-club register. That gentleness is the point. It allows audiences who are wary of melodrama to name their pain without feeling indulgent.
The subtext is also reputational. A Bush speaking in the language of emotional intimacy signals a shift from power to personhood, from political dynasty to relatable witness. In the current media ecosystem, where public mourning is both ubiquitous and suspect, the sentence positions her as a safe intermediary: someone who can hold grief in public without turning it into spectacle.
It resonates because it offers an upgrade to the tired directive to "move on". Intertwined implies entanglement, not replacement. Love doesn't outlast grief; it generates it, and grief becomes the shadow that proves the light was real.
Quote Details
| Topic | Sadness |
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| Source | Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss (2020) by Jenna Bush Hager |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Hager, Jenna Bush. (2026, January 26). Grief and love are forever intertwined. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/grief-and-love-are-forever-intertwined-184587/
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Hager, Jenna Bush. "Grief and love are forever intertwined." FixQuotes. January 26, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/grief-and-love-are-forever-intertwined-184587/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Grief and love are forever intertwined." FixQuotes, 26 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/grief-and-love-are-forever-intertwined-184587/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.









