Quotes About Loss

People rarely spoke of a breakup as tragic; instead, breakups were part of life. But when you and the other person broke up, you could look for them everywhere, and maybe you would physically find them, but even if they were the same person, they were not for you; they were not yours. The evaporation of love was like a kind of death.

But the truth is, you can rarely undo things. This is what you realize after one of your parents dies.

Bad things happen and then they're over, but where do they go?

And the family that seemed so perfect began to suffer through small and then large tragedies—a wayward sister gone more wayward, the parents' separation and then divorce, and, most terrible of all, the death of Meg's older brother in a boating accident. There's something so intense about these relationships we have with other families during our formative years, and that's one of the main things I wanted to explore in The End of Everything.

When your mom is gone, the thing no one ever tells you is that the little compass needle inside keeps spinning around and around, never finingt North.

When your mom is gone, the thing no one ever tells you is that the little compass needle inside keeps spinning around and around, never finding North.

All these years later, the story of their parents' end, passed down like lore, still seemed unbearably romantic to their students—less so to Marie, who, after sobbing violently next to her sister, Dara, through the funeral, insisted, I never saw them hold hands once.

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

There wasn't much to know. Now there's less.

My inheritance had become available, my aunt—my only champion—had been killed, and my uncle had been given power over my person and my money.

The earth giveth, and the earth taketh away.

They were the words she'd waited her entire life for, words of acceptance, of love, and Imogene knew this was finally her chance to hear them, her chance to be the daughter her father had always wanted, the daughter he'd lost when Chloe died. This time, she wouldn't fail. Not this time.

music told me that whatever else had been taken from me, my soul remained.

Some memories fade to tender nostalgia, and some fade altogether,

losing a friend is like losing a language, and I miss the one we spoke together.

You don't honor anybody's memory by wasting the life you get to live when they lost theirs. Remember that.

Sometimes when things break, you can hold them together for a while with string or glue or tape. Sometimes, nothing will hold what's broken, and the pieces fly all over, and though you think you might be able to find them all again, one or two will always be missing. I flew apart. I broke. I shattered like a crystal vase dropped on a concrete floor, and pieces of me scattered all over. Some of them I was glad to see go. Some I never wanted to see again.

Sometimes," he said after a second that lasted a million years, "things get broken. And they can't be fixed.

There are few times when we know with absolute certainty we are going to do something for the last time. Life has a way of moving in circles, bringing us back to places we didn't expect and taking us away from those we do. There are too many times we don't pay close enough attention, and moments are lost in our assumption we'll have another chance.

If I'd known it was going to be the last time he'd ever hold me, I'd have paid better attention.

And you're not afraid of it ending?" "Sure I am. But I'd rather have something this good for a little while than have nothing forever.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It's those that bring us grief that linger.

Because my life's been so much richer for having had her in it, you see. And I know I'll see her again. I believe I will. I wouldn't trade one minute of what we had together even if it meant I'd never have to feel this way.