Quotes About Loss

Sometimes, remembering a moment in your life can physically hurt as you relive everything that mattered to you then, and realize how far gone it is now.

No one can hate you with more intensity than someone who used to love you.

Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.

Carter Kane, 14, died tragically in Paris when he was eaten by his sister's cat Muffin.

If I'm dead, he murmured. Why does it hurt so much?

Tyson- Cash? Like...green paper? Percy- Yeah. Tyson- Like the kind in duffel bags? Percy-Yeah, but we lost those bags days a-g-g--. Tyson! How did you-- Tyson- Thought it was a feed bag for Rainbow. Found it floating in sea, but only paper inside. Sorry.

After our mom died, her parents (our grandparents) had this big court battle with dad. After six lawyers, two fistfights, and a near fatal attack with a spatula (don't ask), they won the right to keep Sadie with them in England.

It was one of those and so they died/the end stories, that made us demigods feels all warm and fuzzy inside.-Percy

Nico was devastatingly alone. He'd lost his big sister Bianca. He'd pushed away all other demigods who'd tried to get close to him. His experiences at Camp Half-Blood, in the Labyrinth and in Tartarus had left him scarred, afraid to trust anyone.

Death has more in common with Love than you might imagine.

Who's the other kid in the photo?' he asked. 'The sandy-haired guy.' Annabeth's expression tightened. Touchy subject. 'That's Luke,' she said. 'He's dead now.

Why are they so sad?" I asked. "Well, they're dead," Carter speculated.

Gods forbid if she ever broke up with him. She'd never be able to visit the sea again without remembering her broken heart. Annabeth about Percy

The dead aren't scary. They are just sad.

No one can hate you more than someone who used to love you.

Percy: I thought I'd lost my mom forever, and I was stuck on a hill in a thunderstorm fighting this huge bull dude while Grover was passed out wailing. "Food!" It was terrifying, man.

Beckendorf closed eyes tight and brought his hand up to his watch. from that distance, the explosion shook the world. Heat seared the back of my head. The Princess Andromeda blew up from both sides, a massive fireball of green flame roiling into the dark sky, consuming everything....I stared out the window into deep blue water. Beckendorf was supposed to go to college in the fall. He had a girlfriend, lots of friends, his whole life ahead of him. He couldn't be gone.

I missed him so much I would sometimes turn to tell him something before I forgot he was gone. In spite of all that, and all the emotion boiling around inside me, all I could think of to say was: "You're blue.

I couldn't help thinking about my dream, with Annabeth crumpled and lifeless in Luke's arms. Here I was rescuing baby monsters, but I couldn't save my friend.

Death is sometimes kinder than Love.

Nut shrugged. Set had always been Set, for better or worse. But he is still part of our family. It is difficult to lose any member of your family . . . is it not?

It struck me just how young he was—no more than seventeen. Older than my mortal form, yes, but not by much. This young man had lost his mother. He had survived the harsh training of Lupa the wolf goddess. He'd grown up with the discipline of the Twelfth Legion at Camp Jupiter. He'd fought Titans and giants. He'd helped save the world at least twice. But by mortal standards, he was barely an adult. He wasn't old enough to vote or drink.

They'd welcomed him aboard their ship. Nico had never allowed himself the luxury of friends, but the crew of the Argo II was as close as he'd ever come. The idea of any of them dying made him feel empty – like he was back in the giants' bronze jar, alone in the dark, subsisting only on sour pomegranate seeds.

But not like this: not with the house just an afterimage, and my mom a spirit, and my dad...recycled. Carter Kane, Chapter 41