“Grief is a heavy sack of rocks. You can drag it alone until your knees give out, or you can let a friend grab a corner. The rocks weigh the same, but the walk gets easier.”Sarah · Peter James Stouffer
The epigraph heading this section is not spoken aloud in the scene, but it carries Sarah's voice.
She had been carrying things for a long time. She knew what a sack of rocks felt like. The passage does not pretend the weight disappears.
Sarah's mercy is exact: she is not offering to take grief away. She is offering to grab a corner. The rocks weigh the same, but the walk gets easier.