Billie holiday Quote by Amy Bloom

“And in the background of Early's story was her voice. Her soul. Her sadness and longing. Because when it's raining, it's always Billie Holiday.…

— Clare Vanderpool

“But my best friend from college was silent for a long time. She, of all of my friends, had seen the parade of sad…

— Lauren Groff

“Even the Dreamers, lost in their great reverie, feel it, for it’s Billie they reach for in sadness, and Isley they hum in love,…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother’s voice took all of the grief out of the words and left me with…

— Toni Morrison

“Waking in the morning, I had to remember grief all over again. It was sunny, a white winter sun, and that made me sad.”

— Olivia Sudjic

“She would (if she could) put her arm around the girl she'd been and try to tell her Take it easy, but the girl…

— Abigail Thomas

“She had no reason to cry. She was alive, and it was a beautiful day.”

— Hope Ramsay

“Maybe I just didn’t want it to be Benny because he really loves her, and if I was wrong about that, it’d be depressing.…

— J.D. Robb

“There is a cry out there, someone cries out for attention, for someone to listen. Just to listen.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“Crying all the time had made her more beautiful. Grief will do that sometimes. Not for me. Loretta had left months ago and I…

— Junot Díaz

“Sarah shifted on the bench. I worried she was winding up to say something, that Sky would start humming now, that the fright spring-coiled…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Gloria laughed at them and said that she’d overtaken grief a long time ago, that she was tired of everyone wanting to go to…

— Colum McCann