Life Quote by Dani Shapiro

“In a very tragic kind of way, sometimes things have to be gone before I fully realize that they were ever there.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The last time she had seen him in the flesh, all the vital force of his life stripped away, his sharpened face had confronted…

— Anna Kavan

“Sometimes she wondered if it wouldn't have been better to let herself experience it [the grief] in the beginning - like a Band-Aid torn…

— Katie Ganshert

“She hadn’t understood loss until it had laid her to waste, and she feared what would become of her when she was again without…

— Molly Collier

“It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.”

— Louise Erdrich

“Her grief is old, I reminded myself. And yet I didn't think pain like that ever faded entirely. Grief had its own life, took…

— Leigh Bardugo

“Life seemed suddenly a little empty, for never again could there happen to her something so dangerous, so sublime.”

— Richard Hughes

“The sting of her abandonment had not lessened through the years, and I suspected it would never go away. Occasionally, I could see agony…

— T.J. Forrester

“She tore herself away, and went out. And I went away. I cannot describe the emotion with which I went away. I should not…

— Ivan Turgenev

“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of…

— Anna Kavan

“...And there it went, the burden of her lifetime, taken.”

— Ann Patchett

“Maybe his grief was like her wounded arm. Slowly healing. Gradually becoming less consuming as life delivered other worries and other joys. Other sources…

— Veronica Rossi