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Quotes About Loss

She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?
~ Gayle Forman
She left for Juilliard the day after Labor Day. I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.
~ Gayle Forman
The whole night had been a mistake. It's not going to let me rewind. Or unmake the mistakes I've made.Or the promises I've mad. Or have her back. Or have me back.
~ Gayle Forman
I miss my father. I miss my grandfather. I miss my home. And I miss my mother. But the thing is, for almost three years, I managed not to miss any of them. And then I spent that one day with that one girl. One day ... It was like she gave me her whole self, and somehow as a result, I gave her more of myself than I even realized there was to give. But then she was gone. And only after I'd been filled up by her, by that day, did I understand how empty I really was.
~ Gayle Forman
So let's hear another one of your irrational fears. Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was burrowing her body into mine. "I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices." I pushed her away so I could see her face and kissed the top of her forehead. "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen.
~ Gayle Forman
The clothes are packed off to Goodwill I said my good-byes up on the hill The house is empty, the furniture sold Soon your smell will decay to mold Don't know why I bother calling, ain't nobody answering Don't know why I bother singing, ain't nobody listening "Disconnect" Collateral Damage, Track 10
~ Gayle Forman
How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?
~ Gayle Forman
Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?
~ Gayle Forman
Megan Luisa Garcia I WAS HERE
~ Gayle Forman
But that's the thing with death. The whisper of it descent travels fast and wide, and people must've know I'd become a corpse because nobody even came to view the body.
~ Gayle Forman
To be the holder of other people's loss is to be the keeper of their love. To share your loss with people is another way of giving your love.
~ Gayle Forman
Either way you win. And either way you lose. What can I tell you? Love's a bitch.
~ Gayle Forman
I'm in love with you, Cody. And I know that this is all complicated and confused in a wholly fucked-up way. Meg's death was a tragedy and the worst kind of waste, but I don't want to lose you because of the fucked-up-way I found you." "Fucking Ben McCallister. You make me cry more than almost any person I've ever met." "I shed a few tears myself last night.
~ Gayle Forman
They may be complete strangers, with different lives and different problems, but there in that examination room they are measuring sadness the same way. They are measuring it in loss.
~ Gayle Forman
Y apuesto a que se convertirá en una persona más fuerte gracias a la pérdida de hoy. Tengo la sensación de que después de pasar por algo así, uno se vuelve más o menos invencible.
~ Gayle Forman
it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.
~ Gayle Forman
Denial, anger, acceptance
~ Gayle Forman
How can you believe someone to be so beautiful and amazing and just about the most magical person you've ever known, when it turns out she was in such pain that she had to drink poison to rob her cells of oxygen until her heart had no choice but to stop beating?
~ Gayle Forman
Ella me dio un beso de despedida. Ella me dijo que me amaba más que a su propia vida. Luego pasó a través de seguridad. Ella nunca volvió.
~ Gayle Forman
You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?)
~ Gayle Forman
How does it feel that the only worthy thing you ever ceeated came from the worst kind of loss.
~ Gayle Forman
So let's hear another one of your irrational fears." Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was burrowing her body into mine. "I'm scared of losing you," she said in the faintest of voices.
~ Gayle Forman
Y es allí cuando entiendo que he sido manchada. Ya sea porque todavía estoy enamorada de él, ya sea porque el alguna vez estuvo enamorado de mí, y no importa de quien esté enamorado ahora, Willen cambió mi vida. Me enseñó cómo perderme, y yo me mostré como encontrarme.
~ Gayle Forman
I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.
~ Gayle Forman