You have no idea how well you are doing,” John complimented mejust a few minutes after he mentioned the Christmas card. What did that mean: That I was doing well? That I’d come to a...

And then there’s the truth beyond that, sitting like an old rock under green creek water: none of these things matter. Right now, in this moment, we have love. We have it in the sound...

LXXIXWhen I die, I want your hands on my eyes.I want the light and wheat of your beloved hands to pass their freshness over me once moreLI want to feel the softness that changed my...

You’re gone and you left me. My heart has dissipated. The only thing I can feel is the blood rushing through my veins and the strings that hold my fragile heart together.

Watch people when they win, and you will learn something. But watch them when they lose, and you will learn even more.

… he wasn’t crying for the woman who had died. He was crying for the woman she had been.

When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you’re going to take whatever lesson that person or animal...

We knew what we had and what it meant, and though so much had happened since for both of us, there was nothing like those years in Paris, after the war. Life was painfully pure...

…she imagines her body curled in the narrow monk’s bed, knees to chin, her own irrefutable geography, but she sees the blood of her futile heart seeping out over her chest and arms and legs,...

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go.

Ready or not, here I comeI’m so tired of this dumb game of hide and seekOlly olly oxen freeShow yourself, you’re scaring meCome out, come out, where ever you areYou’ve taken this thing way too...

Now the two of them rode silently toward town, both lost in their own thoughts. Their way took them past the Delgado house. Roland looked up and saw Susan sitting in her window, a bright...

But I’ve learned that sometimes, somehow, no matter how much time we spend apart from the ones we care most about, our love for them never fades, for time apart only makes our love grow...

How can I judge?” she said at last. “To me, he is a hero. To the world a monster.” She let her head fall into her arms and started crying quietly. “I miss him! Curse...

When a woman miscarries, the experience of the father is often forgotten. But men grieve pregnancy loss too…

The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where...

Sometimes you have to let things go. Sometimes you have to stop caring for a minute.

HE didn’t realize she was his everything until he gave her up for everything else.

Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all...

Oh sweetheart, do you really think if youseal it up, that the pain’s gonna go away?

Leaving yourself behind is the worst loss a person can know.

None of us will truly have freedom until we know what it means to lose everything” – Laney

Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I`m stronger.

I didn’t want to get burned. I didn’t want to be the other woman, but I wanted him with all my might.

…And her tears turned into blood, because what she was losing was thicker than water.

And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn’t have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.

Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.

People gave you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn’t want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this was the Middle Ages, you’d be married and...

You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn’t know when the last argument happened, or the last time you had sex, or the last time you looked into their eyes and...

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure...

We named the bar The Bar. “People will think we’re ironic instead of creatively bankrupt,” my sister reasoned.Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers – that the name was a joke no one...

Listen, Harper. I realize how hard this is for you.”A flash of anger heats up in my chest. She doesn’t understand. She can’t. If she did, she’d leave me alone instead of trying to force...

To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.

Heart, we will forget him!You and I, to-night!You may forget the warmth he gave,I will forget the light.When you have done, pray tell me,That I my thoughts may dim;Haste! lest while you’re lagging,I may remember...

The truth is, we never know what life will bring us and we don’t have as much control as we might think we have. But we CAN choose how we walk through life and how...

Life has a way of filling up one’s time with many different things to do. So much so that you turn a blind eye to the things that really matter.

A man walks fast along the forecourt of the station towards a gate, moving towards a train that’s about to leave. I get shivery all over as I watch the back of his head, which...

May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you.

Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World If the gods bring to youa strange and frightening creature,accept the giftas if it were one you had chosen. Say the accustomed prayers,oil the hooves...

im in love with you and im not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.

Coming back last time to the house she grew up in, Isabel had been reminded of the darkness that had descended with her brothers’ deaths, how loss had leaked all over her mother’s life like...

Dr. Webb says that losing a sibling is oftentimes much harder for a person than losing any other member of the family. “A sibling represents a person’s past, present, and future,” he says. “Spouses have...

Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That’s the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what’s left, that’s the part you have...

For need can blossom into all the compensation it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly...

I Cannot Remember You…engulfed in liquid amnesiaI cannot fight the tide

The things you let go will someday teach you how to fly.

You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them.

Someone once said that death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live. I could tell you who said it, but who the hell...

I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants of shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and...