Death Quote by Karen Ann Hopkins

“Sitting there, I wasn’t convinced I’d survive until that day let alone beyond it. I felt the struggle intensifying between my mom and me…

— J M Northup

“In the silence that followed, I was aware of just how much I wished things were different. I wanted to be able to talk…

— Morgan Matson

“(...) And through it all I thought of my mother and the lives she didn’t get to live.”

— Sam J. Miller

“I could feel the hard part of Mom very strongly that time. It was like a stone in her that grew bigger every time…

— Kaimana Wolff

“I felt hollowed out. My mom's death was not useful. I felt a shot of rage at her, and then imagined those last bloody…

— Gillian Flynn

“And I'd started thinking about my mother's last weeks--the way she'd drifted listlessly about the house in her dressing gown, cigarettes in one hand,…

— Anna Davis

“This, I finally realized, was how Mom was able to focus when I was not. It was how she was able to be present…

— Will Schwalbe

“It hadn't occurred to me that my mother would die. Until she was dying, the thought had never entered my mind. She was monolithic…

— Cheryl Strayed

“I sat there for a moment and thought about my mom. It was her groans of pain that would get me the most. Sometimes…

— Adam Rapp

“She used to think that only parents can understand the sort of love that swallows you up, but now she wondered whether it was…

— Paula Hawkins

“I tried to think of what to say to her. She stood looking at us, a woman in front of her three children. Her…

— Brandon Hobson

“The live, warm presence of my mother had disappeared. In its place stood this remoteness posing as Mama. Her anxiety was unbearable to me.…

— Vivian Gornick