Years ago Quote by Charlotte Featherstone

“There wasn’t a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just…

— Joanna Chambers

“Pain and guilt tore through him. His soul was bleeding to death. He stood there, waiting to die. How could he not? But such…

— Diana Pharaoh Francis

“The days after that, I felt so many different things, sad, angry. Guilty, but for the mostly just numb, like part of me was…

— Alex Flinn

“But he was exhausted, too, and not even feeling as if he were alive. Inside him, it felt as if something brilliant, some fire,…

— Douglas Clegg

“He felt like his own heart might stop beating just from acknowledging the concept. The sadness, the sorrow, and the loss, they were living…

— Adam P. Knave

“He kept his back turned and his eyes closed, feeling no shame or anger but only an increasing sickness of soul.”

— Jim Thompson

“But when he died, I saw - nothing. There was nothing left to see. It happened and it was impossible and beautiful and then…

— Sarah Ockler

“I do not know how I got through without breaking down, without my heart bursting from sorrow and shame.”

— Christina Stead

“He did not know what to say in the face of such sorrow. He sat in silence by his sister's side in the spring…

— Halldor Laxness

“He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him...”

— J.K. Rowling

“His heart...responds to those once-upon-a-time people, anonymous in the shadows, the faith it took them to come together and rest and listen through the…

— Lauren Groff

“The grief remained, and the guilt hadn’t gone anywhere, but they didn’t crush him the way they once did. They sat beside him instead,…

— R.P. Gage