I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.

The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit.

Someone is going to tell you to get use to this. That feeling of being scared and sad. They’re going to say it’ll be better when you learn to ignore it. Don’t listen to them....

I hope the dogs don’t bark tonight. I always think it’s mine

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman’s love, however badly he may have treated her.

He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.

If you keep picking at that scab on your heart, it won’t heal.

everybody mourns in her own way.”Helen mourned her sister deeply. She arrived each day with shopping bags. Her cake was tender with sliced apples, but her almond cookies crumbled at the touch. Her pecan bars...

When Death laughs, no one else does

I had no intention of forsaking my wedding vows. I had strong morals and never could have imagined going against them. I was never even tempted to stray.

I have seen enough, too, to know that it is not always the youngest and best who are spared to those that love them; but this should give us comfort rather than sorrow, for Heaven...

The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.

How many losses does it take to stop a heart,to lay waste to the vocabularies of desire?

It’s always the same with lost people; you start out looking for them, and you end up losing yourself.

The two brothers who sought to get their only family back, to feel her warmth, one lost his last family member and the other could never feel warmth again.The one who wanted her baby back...

I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I’d be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came...

Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry – the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds.

Maybe Laney’s right. Maybe June did love me. But I’m far less certain that she knew I loved her. Did she realise how much I needed her around? It’s not like I ever told her....

It is an unwritten rule of life that when you are in acute pain and have no one to console you, someone, from somewhere, will emerge in your life to offer you comfort. However, ‘that’...

all you say is true. But Rhaegar lost on the Trident. He lost the battle, he lost the war, he lost the kingdom, and he lost his life. His blood swirled downriver with the rubies...

I used to feel afraid of the future, always assuming the worst. But now I’ve realized that my worst fears have already happened, and I’ve survived them! I’ve walked into the fire and made it...

If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies–mother, I can’t speak of what I shall feel if she dies.” His voice was choked in his throat.

I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another. And now I feel, with a...

His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

You shine brighter than the sun””But even the sun goes away every night””But it is hte sun’s absence that makes us feel its power. We know the loss, the beauty and the life that the...

That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate.

I suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate.

You were standing in the wake of devastation And you were waiting on the edge of the unknown And with the cataclysm raining down Insides crying “Save me now” You were there, impossibly alone

When nothing becomes the vocalThen nothing becomes the focalAnd nothing’s becoming at all

Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.

Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness

It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there was a reason you’d been put on this earth. A child, I imagined, was...

A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bare to lose.

I feel like people are only really dead once you stop learning about them. This is why it is important to me to keep learning about my mother, and what she wanted, and what her...

I am back in my beloved city. The scene of desolation fills my eyes with tears. At every step my distress and agitation increases. I cannot recognize houses or landmarks I once knew well. Of...

Loss taught me. It taught me that I won’t have people around me forever. The good I need to do to someone today, I may not have the opportunity to do tomorrow.

What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.

When you pray for what you most want in the world, its opposite comes along with it. I was given a woman whom I truly loved and who truly loved me. The opposite side of...

No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it was like the soldiers he had read about. They would have an arm or a...

If you want to find money, focus on people. If you want to lose people, focus on money.

She has been surprised by grief, its constancy, its immediacy, its unrelenting physical pain.

MOTHER – By Ted KooserMid April already, and the wild plumsbloom at the roadside, a lacy whiteagainst the exuberant, jubilant greenof new grass and the dusty, fading black of burned-out ditches. No leaves, not yet,only...

Sometimes the opposite of loss is loss.

Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut…

And there was time enough–or so it seemed–for all the cherries atop all the ice-cream sundaes in all the world to fall from their frozen perches, as the heat of a treasure chest summer melted...

She was too quiet, or she was too loud. She took things too seriously, or not seriously at all. She was too sensitive, or too cold-hearted. She hated with every fiber of her being, or...

Bella: How could I live with myself when it’s my fault? None of you should be risking yourselves for me –Jasper: Bella, Bella, stop. You’re worrying all the wrong things, Bella. Trust me on this...

That what?” “That I knew i misjudged you. That you love him. I’m not saying In what way. Maybe you don’t know yourself. But anyone paying attention could see how much you care about him,”...

A person can’t possibly live without the one person that gave them life.

…and be emptied of gravity and surrounding by the rouge wave of an emotion she could not name.