Quotes About Loss

You just didn't know what life was going to hand you. You didn't know what love you would find, what love would be snatched away.

Then Phoebe came to the underlined verses. My life with you has been beyond beyond/And there's nothing beyond it I'm seeking/I wouldn't mind being dead/If I could still be with you.

Even if Willa lives to be a hundred and is surrounded by children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, she will still miss her mother. So all she can hope for are unexpected moments of grace.

Bad things can happen, terrible things. You can lose the people you love the most; you can lose homes, cars, antiques, hand-knotted silk rugs that cost five figures; you can discover that the very life you're living is a terrific lie. And despite this, despite all this, the sun will continue to rise.

I can't pretend to know what it feels like to lose a child, but I assume it's the worst pain I've ever felt times a thousand, or times a hundred thousand.

saying so regardless, for the kids' sake. Was it possible that Arch's spirit resided here, that his soul

Shooter's absence is more powerful than Benji's presence.

But the road was still sunny, the gulls cried out. Neil was gone, and for a second, Jem felt something he thought might be peace.

The giddy, head-over-heels infatuation faded; it mellowed into something else. You got married, then divorced. Or your husband killed himself. Or your brain synapses became encased in gooey plaque and you started putting the frying pan in the icebox instead of in the cabinet where it belonged.

Elin Hilderbrand

her jump off the George Washington Bridge. Her other attorney

Elin Hilderbrand

Elin Hilderbrand

Elin Hilderbrand

What is the saddest day of the year? Labor Day or December 26th? One is given only a certain number of Christmases in one's life.

didn't understand how lucky I was to have her until she was gone.

Elin Hilderbrand

What are we talking about in 2023? We are talking about our shared grief. We are talking about our collective gratitude. Cooper In the summer of 2023, Cooper Blessing is fifty-six years old, and when he gets down on one knee on the sidewalk in front of the Red Star Bar & Grill in Fells Point, he's momentarily concerned that he'll need help getting back up.

anyone. It takes an extraordinary person to handle this kind of loss as graciously as you are." At these words, Ursula sat up and stretched

At the hospital, an unfamiliar doctor told them that Vivi hadn't made it. She didn't make it was too gentle a phrase because it sounded like Vivi hadn't made it this time but could maybe try again.

be missing her. He had to be thinking

Hamnet, by Maggie O'Farrell?

The morning after my death we will sit in cafés but I will not be there I will not be

Because Tarik was dead.