Life Quote by Hilary Thayer Hamann

“Her parents were killed in their private helicopter. An elite death but at the moment of dying we are all penniless. She never spoke…

— Salman Rushdie

“Her grief was dignified and hidden, as is most grief, which is partly why there is always so much of it to go around.”

— Kevin Powers

“The Goddess spoke to all the dead. She was beloved for it. It seemed she passed on that gift to you. Oh, it taxed…

— Leanna Renee Hieber

“People naturally pay their respects to the dead. The person had, after all, just accomplished the personal, profound feat of dying.”

— Haruki Murakami

“She had never realized before her life was torn apart how awkward grief was, how inconvenient for everyone with whom the mourner came into…

— Paula Hawkins

“Serving as the only audience for a man raised by crowds of admirers exhausted her. [...] The buried thought that he might have found…

— Carey Wallace

“She was coming to look on men and women as fellow-survivors: well-dissemblers of their woes, who, with few signals of grief, had contained, assimilated,…

— Shirley Hazzard

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She had a way of tidying up after people, interpreting and representing them when they were dead or absent, in the kindest light”

— A.L. Barker

“And she learned - freshly, scorchingly - of the privacy of sorrow. It was as though she had been escorted through a door into…

— Elizabeth Strout

“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