Fictional character Quote by George R.R. Martin

“It was like murdering two of your children. I try to make the readers feel they’ve lived the events of the book. Just as…

— George R.R. Martin

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you…

— George R. R. Martin

You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.

— Anonymous

“Leave me alone to mourn the deaths of fictional characters I have become overly attached to.”

— Your Ecards

“One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to…

— Meghan O'Rourke

“The day when you shed a tear for the death of a fictional character, you know they have become more than a character.”

— Ryan J. Alls

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

— George R. R. Martin

“Understand there’s no right or wrong way to grieve, including anticipatory grief. It’s like the ocean. It ebbs and it flows. There can be…

— Dana Arcuri

“It hurts when you lose a friend to death, it hurts even more when you lose a friend still living.”

— CJ Tulli

“Remember that we must all die: all these personal relations we try to live by are temporary. I used to feel death selected people,…

— E.M. Forster

“When Fran had died and people had shared their own stories of grieving he’d wanted to hit them, to scream, I don’t care if…

— Ann Cleeves

“Everything about death is a cliché until you're in it.”

— Gail Caldwell