Mad-rogan Quote by Ilona Andrews

“Grief was what you owed the dead for the necessary crime of living on without them.”

— Kamila Shamsie

“Someone here died, I realize. Someone these people loved and cared for. I’m not the only person in the world tangled up in grief.”

— Cat Hellisen

“I didn’t understand grief. I thought grief was something that happened when someone you love dies, not when they are still alive.”

— Cheri Davies

“There was supposed to be grief when someone died, tears and heartfelt eulogies, the cutting pain of loss. Instead, he felt…nothing. Just numbness, an…

— Piper Vaughn

“I realized that whilst crying over the loss, the living did not seem adequate because they were not my loved one. The room full…

— Phindiwe Nkosi

“I couldn’t begin to understand the loss he felt, but I wanted to be there to help him through it.”

— Bella Forrest

“I was on the verge of crying with grief at still being alive.”

— Knut Hamsun

“i wondered vaguely what it would be to feel this loss, this outrage, and be justified in it, be deserving of sympathy, of solace.…

— Anne Rice

“I’d read enough to know that one of the symptoms of grief was a deep anger at the loved one who’d died, anger that…

— Katherine Allred

“But then I suppose I’ve never really lost anyone. How would I know what that kind of grief feels like?”

— Paula Hawkins

“His eyes looked sad and cautious.  I recognized the grief, but there seemed to be more to it, a depth beyond what even I…

— Tyra Lynn

“Grief was an illness with me. Unfortunately it’s incurable. I’ve just learned to live with it.”

— Sandra Brown