Time Quote by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“When he asked if he was mine, tears in his eyes, I think he knew what he would do, what he would have to…

— Emma Forrest

“It was all he'd felt for too long to change now. Maybe it was too late for any other kind of life. This was…

— Virginia Brown

“He had discovered that grief did not dim with time; it was instead a volatile state of being.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“The next few weeks were the worst he could remember. Too many things were coming back to him, too much of what he'd lost…

— Margaret Atwood

“It was like missing a train-or something more important, something that would never come again. There was no explanation for the grief that suddenly…

— Anny Tyler

“It's wrong to give so much time over to mourning, she tells herself. Mourning and brooding. There's nothing to be accomplished by it.”

— Margaret Atwood

“He liked what he had too much.”

— Tim Relf

“I had plenty of time,' he said, telling himself that was one of the saddest sentences there is.”

— Laurence Cossé

“Who was he mourning? She didn’t know. A whole generation maybe.”

— Arundhati Roy

“Mourning died slowly. It never fully dies for something truly loved.”

— Bernard Malamud

“He wondered what his sorrow was and could not remember.”

— N. Scott Momaday

“She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.”

— Zora Neale Hurston