She had never understood either of the men she had loved and so she had lost them both. Now, she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved...

…when the pain subsides the grief remains.

Omnia mutantur; nihil interit

Yes, it’s worth it. The pain of sorrow is terrible and hard to bear, but the joy of love makes it worthwhile. p123

Why talk about something you can’t do anything about?

You’d have thought that after suffering such a loss nothing else would matter to her but that didn’t seem to be how it worked. She was fearful about everything now. It was as if she...

Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow...

In the midst of the darkness of loss, I found light. Admittedly, in those first weeks, it might have been but a single small spark I sensed deep inside of me, but that spark guided...

I’ve seen too much sacrifice to believe that God is behind all of it, and I’ve seen sacrifice that has no indicia of the hand of God at all. Loss is not always part of...

My mind couldn’t fit itself around the shape of his absence.

Some of us walk around with a necklace of hope, an armour of sanity, but at the end of the day, they always come off. We reveal our naked, vulnerable, real selves.

We’ve all lost something along the way.

Grief denied will surface in borrowed clothes, the mad, sad clothes of paranoia, fear or loneliness

Love left to languish will bear poisonous fruit.

think when it’s all over it just comes back in flashes, you know? It’s like a kaleidoscope of memories; it just all comes back. But he never does. I think part of me knew the...

The truth is that any figure of Africans imported into the Americas which is narrowly based on the surviving records is bound to be low, because there were so many people at the time who...

An observant friend will recognize the signs of the rise of grief: eyes that easily well with tears, a smile that is difficult to sustain, a tendency to withdraw. And ultimately, perhaps we each need...

She loved beyond measure, When I was young I thought her cold. But in time I came to understand that she was too tender for the world she’d been born into,” I said. Sorrow gave...

Sometimes I wish I could go back in time, and be the one who ended up in that accident, completely dead… but you know what? It wouldn’t change anything. All I can do now that...

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