Collateral damage Quote by Alison Umminger

“She used to be really dynamic and exciting and filled with promise, but she's become this ordinary sort of boring person...I always thought it…

— Meg Wolitzer

“Hope had been beaten to death. She dried her eyes, shut down her heart, and plunged herself into an emotional coma. So much easier…

— Shannon Hale

“Hope had beaten her to death. She dried her eyes, shut down her heart, and plunged herself into an emotional coma. So much easier…

— Shannon Hale

“I didn't know why she seemed so sad and happy at the same time. To love someone was not what she had expected. It…

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

“Even though we knew she was going to die eventually, when it happened it was still a terrible, rude shock. I thought I was…

— Hope Edelman

“Her experience told her that suicide wasn't a thunderous, unimaginable roar. It was a seductive whisper that stole the people you loved.”

— Wendy Roberts (Remains of the Dead

“Women think that they can make sad things go away by knowing the reason that they happened.”

— Johanna Skibsrud

“there was genuine pity in her face, but also a kind of glee, the sort you see sometimes when teens are interviewed about the…

— Ruth Ware

“I think she cried at my funeral. It's not that I'm conceited or anything, but I'm pretty sure. Sometimes I can actually picture her…

— Etgar Keret

“It was tragic how life had sucked her down to the bones, all her spontaneity her laughter and freedom had vanished. I knew then…

— Belinda Jeffrey

“You could try as hard as you could to imagine someone else's tragedy - but nothing truly hurts until it happens to you.”

— Liane Moriarty

“There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, if you know what I mean. I mean, you…

— Jesse Andrews