Quote by Emily Brontë

“When I heard that she was dead, I really suffered very little.”

— Geoffrey Household

“Even though we knew she was going to die eventually, when it happened it was still a terrible, rude shock. I thought I was…

— Hope Edelman

“I can see her struggling to find the right word. Death seems so harsh. Passing so oblique. Some things are beyond words, I suppose,…

— Kelseyleigh Reber

“As soon as she concentrated on being alive now, the thought of dying also came into her mind.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“She would die here and not complain. She would be buried beneath this avalanche of lifelessness.”

— Marissa Meyer

“She wanted to die. She wanted to die. Because then it would be over. All the loss, all the grief, all the pain, the…

— Michelle Sagara West

“She had been grief stricken as her father lay dying but now she felt weightless, the way people do when they're no longer sure…

— Alice Hoffman

“Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made…

— Émile Zola

“There, there, it is but a story," she comforted sadly. "Like all dead people become.”

— M.E. Vaughan

“Hope had been beaten to death. She dried her eyes, shut down her heart, and plunged herself into an emotional coma. So much easier…

— Shannon Hale

“She was in herself, like a woman near term, and did not think of the man, going on ahead, or the path, climbing upwards…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Hope had beaten her to death. She dried her eyes, shut down her heart, and plunged herself into an emotional coma. So much easier…

— Shannon Hale