Quote by Deborah Reed

“loving someone, loving anyone, even those long gone, was of consequence, and not loving them was of consequence, too.”

— Deborah Reed

“Perhaps love was worth any and all sacrifice, but that love was of no comfort to those who were sacrificed.”

— Megan Derr

“But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there…

— Margaret Atwood

“... we honor the people we lost by loving again.”

— Marie Force

“She did not like seeing her loved ones like this, bent over with sorrow; everything in her wanted to cry out, to thrash and…

— Anne Ursu

“it was a love and empathy for those who suffered, for what they endured and what he might bring to bear.”

— Paul Kalanithi

“Was my sacrifice worth it? I felt hollow and bereft, yet the grief in my heart had palpable weight, bearing me down to the…

— S. Jae-Jones

“Any commemoration is also a betrayal.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Remembrance. Even more, confession. It did always made the heavy things come loose.”

— Erika Robuck

“That was the danger. Not that betrayals happened, not that cruel things happened, but that they could outweigh all the good. That we could…

— Louise Penny

“He gave her humanity back to her. Now she had a reason to wake, a reason to love, a reason to care if she…

— Eliza Maxwell

“More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due…

— John Green