Devastated Quote by Colleen Hoover

“Devastated should be reserved for mothers”

— Colleen Hoover

“They were happy, or at least as happy as a family can be when it’s burdened by a grief too large to be absorbed…

— Fredrik Backman

Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred. A father,…

— Charles Dickens

“Even as she listened to murmurs of support, she heard the relief in other people’s voices, the immense gratitude that it wasn’t their child…

— Kristin Hannah

“But grief let loose from a woman who lost a child—that was the worst type of grief of all.”

— Bernice McFadden

“Grief she could not feel, for there had been too much bitterness between her mother and herself to leave in her heart any deep…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Losing a parent was difficult; when her father had died, she had thought she’d never get over it. The pain had been like a…

— Victoria Jenkins

“Divorce hadn’t devastated her. She’d felt awful for her son, but God, she’d felt free, and she’d hoped that a happy mom was more…

— Victoria Dahl

“Not every daughter mourns the loss of a mother.”

— Rasmenia Massoud

Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.

— Arundhati Roy

“A long while yet will you keep that great mother's grief. But it will turn in the end into quiet joy, and your bitter…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Grief held on. It would not let go of loss, because to do that was to accept it. I told that to grieving families…

— Patricia Cornwell