If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to believe that the child has not lost the end for which...

The real hell of this,” he told her, “is that you’re going to get through it.

I have been loved,” she said, “by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

You weren’t there.

Eli was right. The measure of success isn’t what you gain. It’s what you pay to get it.

Every game has rules. Obey the rules, win the game; disobey the rule, lose it! The game of life has loser and winners. Play fairly and win!

More than anything, Natalie wanted to move to the bed, take Sophie’s hand, sit beside her.Lay her head against her shoulder. But she didn’t dare. Or maybe just couldn’t. Fear. Friendship. Desire. Regret. Remorse. Longing....

…recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void…

You can, for just a moment, fuse grief like a bone, but the memory of the ability to bend lingers inside, like an itch running in the blood, just beneath the skin: relief is always...

One always has to be willing to lose to be able to win… in battle and in life. I wonder. Are you willing to lose, Rayla?

Bio sam toliko blizu tebe, da mi je hladno pored drugih.

So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that’s stolen from us–that’s snatched right out of our hands–even if we are left...

Issac:”I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters.”Computer: “I don’t understand-“Issac: “Me neither. Pause

Turn off your phone, and your computer and your mind. Find your heart center and send it compassion. See the holiness in everyone you meet. Honor it.Know your worth. Know your worth. Know your worth.Accept...

Although her heart had been dead for years, she clasped her hands over her breast to protect what rested underneath.

Enjoy today, the time you have now, for time cannot be found only lost.

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it…We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss. We do not expect to be literally crazy, cool...

For anyone who feels lost in their own way, going back to who you are and what you love or moving forward to whoever you are meant to be or meant to love, is the...

Her bed felt huge and empty now, and when she slept, she did so with her arm around a pillow. She dreamed of him almost every night, sometimes good dreams of happy days and joyful...

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.

It was a lesson she was still learning. When she had first started nursing, she had taken every death personally, like she was losing her father all over again. Every patient lost under her care...

The thing about old friends is not that they love you, but that they know you. They remember that disastrous New Year’s Eve when you mixed White Russians and champagne, and how you wore that...

The light in that room was a glow; I seem to remember the color green, or perhaps flowers. A pale green sheet covered his inert body but not his head, which lay (eyes closed, mouth...

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....