I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.

My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

And that’s that as you get older, you lose things, things you don’t necessarily want to lose.

However much grief I carried, I liked the way my life was tending, these bright new directions. It’s only human, to mourn and to reach toward forwardness at once.

She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she...

We had a kettle; we let it leak:Our not repairing made it worse.We haven’t had any tea for a week…The bottom is out of the Universe.

…loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I’m not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose –...

Anger is the only antidote strong enough to counter grief.

No more running, no more half living, starving or fear. You have it better than me now, I think.

If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I’m going to teach you otherwise.

Little Joe was still behind him. Eli could feel it. He wanted to look back, but he couldn’t. The tears were too close. If he were Fancy, he’d turn around and kick and buck and...

I knew it would be all of those things and so much more to me, but it was his heart I was yanking from his chest with my decision, and that’s what mattered to me....

People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines.

Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.

I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

The last time she had seen him in the flesh, all the vital force of his life stripped away, his sharpened face had confronted her with such a fearful fixed finality of sightless indifference that...

The fullness of life’s balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain.

Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.

Though there is much we still want, there is much we already have, and that means we have much to lose as well. It’s that potential loss that can keep us bound so tightly that...

Sometimes things just slip past you, into your hands and out through your fingers. In my half-in/half-out state I began to wonder if that could happen to people, too.

How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.

How easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you’d have forever.

I sit quietly and think about my mom. It’s funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with...

I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater. Lying awake, I tried to recall all my best memories of her—to freeze her in my...

It was a tragic end to a heroic life.

Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part of one.

If you fear to know the cost, the value will definitely be lost. Focus your attentions on the product, not the price.

Shiloh had become far too used to it; for all that she paid him no mind, the moment his sharp fangs pierced the skin on the inside of her thigh, her head lolled back against...

If he even survives.” She shivered, and Amon put his arm around her, drawing her into his steady warmth.”It’s that bad?”Raisa nodded. “He looked…he looked awful, Amon. Willo doesn’t know if he’ll…She’s worried about him....

In time, in time they tell me, I’ll not feel so bad. I don’t want time to heal me. There’s a reason I’m like this.I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss...

No, I am not all right, I want to say. Have you been to my house? Have you seen how empty it is?

Journeying through grief is one of the most “normal human” experiences you can have. Nevertheless, all too frequently the heartbroken seem to feel alienated by society. Unfortunately in our culture, we are taught to hold...

The harmonica has musical wind, and is the breath of soul. It’s like a sad, lonely I love you lost in the breeze.

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

My chips are all cashed out. There’s nothing to lose. Or maybe I’ve already lost it and found it, and whatever else there might be to lose…

You see, because [Norfolk is] stuck out here on the east, on this hump jutting into the sea, it’s not on the way to anywhere. People going north and south, they bypass it altogether. For...

I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my mother’s death, with losing my mother and not being able to get her...

It’s like I’d been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net until someone took it away. And then every single step scared me to...

And maybe one winter it will get too cold and I’ll forget about the summers we once shared. My family portrait mightfold in too, producing the same horrific effect as Jeremy’s: that I, all along,...

If you lose someone, you feel a loss, then after a while you fill in the hole in your life and the loss gradually gets smaller and smaller and eventually goes away. There’s a point...

Dry fingers of decaying branches protruded upward, above what was left of the canopy of green. They rattled like skeletal bones, grasping for a final breath from the last silvery clouds of evening that slowly...

When Mother and I learned that Father was dying, Father asked me to sing for him,” she said. “Mother insisted that I only sing songs from their youthful days together. She wanted me to take...

Here are the things I want for you -I want you to be happy. I want someone else to know the warmth of your smile, to feel the way I did when I was in...

If you think about someone you’ve loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details.

Tonight I attend my thirty-fifth high school reunion with some trepidation.I have not seen most of these former classmates for thirty-some years. I am not the same young girl they knew in high school. What...

These things are lost to oblivion like so much about so many who are born and die without anyone taking the time to write it all down. That Litvinoff had a wife who was so...

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

Keeping busy is the hardest part. When I find myself still, clear of thoughts, I can still feel you holding me.

10 second heartbreak.” That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember…