#Loss

"Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind."

"It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter,the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands,the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly!"

"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."

"The days passed in a dream. I pictured our reunion again and again, played it out in my mind over and over until I’d almost worn a groove in my thoughts, so deep that it seemed the only thing I could think of was our reunion. Anticipation is a gift. Perhaps there is none greater. Anticipation is born of hope. Indeed it is hope’s finest expression. In hope’s loss, however, is the greatest despair."

"...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church."

"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."

"In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this.I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away.I can't say goodbye."

"The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss."

"I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile."

"A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her."

"You see how I tryTo reach with wordsWhat matters mostAnd how I fail."

"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both."

"I'll sleep forever and meet you in my dreams; it'll hurt less anyway. But the pain of losing you was worth the pleasure of having you, and I rest in bed knowing you'll know for the rest of your life what you are missing.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz"

"A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope."

"Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt."

"Long before we even lose our lives, we lose our souls. Tragic but true. Some carry on—willing to make the sacrifices, putting what is perceived as important before anything else. Some tread into the dark—wasting moments of grace, letting themselves suffer from their own decisions or the other’s domination. Some continue to love, give too much, and not leave even a little love for themselves."

"I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night."

"My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself."

"We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations."

"I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing retribution."