The departing year: my grey hair I needn't hide from…

A combination of all that was best in the gladdest days of the departing year.

— Shelby Foote

“It's your last year, Grey," she says. "Make a difference for your school." I'd burn this place to the ground before I ever willingly…

— Courtney Summers

“I'm an orphan now, thought Charlotte. No matter how old you are, when your parents are gone, you are alone - an orphan.”

— Libby Schmais

“The gathering with Sam and Beth’s parents had gone relatively well,”

— Debbie Macomber

“Your parents are never gone from you. You'll see that someday, hopefully a very long time from now.”

— John Searles

“Suddenly I'm scared. That the solar panels were a time machine. That I'm a grown-up woman coming back to this place after many years.…

— Jennifer Egan

Knowing that the voices of both parents have now gone has left me with a great deal of pain and sadness. They sacrificed so…

— Judi Love

“Her parents had gone from a couple who would be different, who would be better than anyone, who were determined to be better than…

— Lorrie Moore

“Nothing was right with her parents gone, no matter how much she'd tried to go on without them.”

— Caragh M. O'Brien

My parents were severe alcoholics. When I was about 17 years old, I finally left home. It wasn't a choice that I made; it…

— Ryan Bingham

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but…

— Alice Munro

“What I'm Afraid Of: [...] That I'm a grown-up woman coming back to this place after many years. That my parents are gone, and…

— Jennifer Egan

When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself…

— Anonymous

Consider the core of the mind to be a wagon, with will-power to be carried about in it. Push it to a place where…

— Takuan Soho

Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern…

— Martin Filler