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Quotes About Loss

You whom I could not save Listen to me." —CZESLAW MILOSZ, "Dedication
~ Holly Black
We're not going to be fine, Tana. We're never going to be fine ever again.
~ Holly Black
My heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world.
~ Holly Black
There is always something left to lose.
~ Holly Black
When it's done, we'll be like brothers," said the devil. "I already have a brother," Gavriel slurred. "He's dead." The devil loomed over him, his grin widening to show off sharp teeth. "As am I." Gavriel opened his mouth to shout, but drunk as he was, he began to laugh instead.
~ Holly Black
I wasn't kind Jude, not to many people, not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone-truly gone beneath the waves- I hated myself as I never have before.
~ Holly Black
I gobble the food down, trying to imagine that I am sitting at the table with them. Trying to imagine myself as their daughter again, and not what's left of her. A cuckoo trying to fit back into the egg.
~ Holly Black
loved him and he's dead and gone and bones. I loved him and they took him away from me. Where is he? Where is he? Dead and gone and
~ Holly Black
Love is stupid. All we do is break one another´s hearts.¨ ¨Yeah,¨ I say, thinking again of Cardan. page 31-32
~ Holly Black
My chest hurts, looking at him. I feel like I can't breathe. Though he is in front of me, the pain of losing him hasn't faded.
~ Holly Black
We are children of tragedy page 162
~ Holly Black
O lady fair! O lady cruel! How I miss your sweet misrule. I miss your hair. I miss your eyes. But most of all, I miss your thighs.
~ Holly Black
I was passed out cold while my family was murdered. It's hard to fall more lowly that that.
~ Holly Black
She looked down at herself, at the mess of her dress and the mess of her knees and the mess of everything. "I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone." Horrifyingly, she felt her eyes prick with sudden tears. He bent down and picked up Aidan, slinging him over one shoulder. "We'll get you another day," Gavriel said, with such odd sincerity that she had to smile.
~ Holly Black
Love is stupid. All we do is break one another's heart." - Heather
~ Holly Black
I feel like a child again, a helpless child in a house of death.
~ Holly Black
When I am scared, I can't forget that no matter how well he plays the role of father, he will always and forever also be my father's murderer.
~ Holly Black
I wasn't kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you or if I wanted gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone- truly gone beneath the waves- I hated myself as I never have before.
~ Holly Black
Though he means me harm, I will miss him. I will miss the way he moves through the world, as though nothing could be so terrible that he might not laugh at it.
~ Holly Black
Mom didn't move. Mom and Dad were dead. They were never going to move again.
~ Holly Black
I know I shouldn't love it as I do, stolen as I am from the mortal world, my parents murdered. But I love it all the same
~ Holly Black
His hand comes up with a cloth smelling of cloying sweetness. He presses it over my nose and mouth. I feel my limbs go loose, and a moment later, I feel nothing at all.
~ Holly Black
There's always something left to lose
~ Holly Black
Quiero que mi nombre desaparezca de sus labios.
~ Holly Black