Quotes About Loss

All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.

It was madness.Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.

Happiness like this is frightening....they only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something away from you

I'm all you have in this world Mariam, and when I'm gone you'll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

Like an art lover running out of a burning museum, she would grab whatever she could - a look, a whisper, a moan- to salvage from perishing, to preserve. But time is the most unforgiving of fires, and she couldn't, in the end, save it all.

When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father.

She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How shr could ever cope with his permanent absence?

Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed

Má»™t khi ta tr? thành ai Ä'ó, con ng??i cÅ© c?a ta cÅ©ng ch?t Ä'i.

Sólo te permiten ser así de feliz cuando están preparándose para llevarse algo de ti.

Her ÅŸeye, devasa olas?l?k oranlar?na raÄŸmen, kontrol edemediÄŸin bir dünyan?n, kaybetmeyi kald?ramayaca??n tek ÅŸeyi elinden almayaca??na dair, son derece tekinsiz ve ak?l almaz aptall?kta bir inanç duymak.

Alas, Abdullah and Pari, Baba Ayub's days of happiness came to an end.

Sea Prayer was inspired by the story of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian refugee who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach the Safety in Europe in 2015. In the year after Alan's death, 4,176 others died or went missing attempting that same journey.

What I have in ample supply here is children who've lost their childhood. But the tragedy is that these are the lucky ones.

It always hurts more to have and loose than not to have in first place

time can be a greedy thing—sometimes it steals all the details for itself.

They only make you so happy when they are about to take something from you

Huddled together in the dining room and waiting for the sun to rise, none of us had any notion that a way of life had ended. Our way of life.

Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed.

She wished she could visit Mariam's grave, to sit with her awhile, leave a flower or two. But Laila sees now that it doesn't matter. Mariam is never very far. She is here, in these walls they've repainted, in the trees they've planted, in the blankets that keep the children warm, in these pillows and books and pencils.

Cesaret nedir haberin bile yok senin,dedi Eyüp Baba.Cesaret göstermek için bir ÅŸeyin tehlikede olmas? laz?m.Oysa ben buraya kaybedecek hiçbir ÅŸeyim olmadan geldim.

father said all good things in life were fragile and easily lost—he

A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose.

It's her way of keeping Mariam close awhile yet before time has its way, before it snatches Mariam from the garden of her memory like a weed pulled by its roots.