Grief Quote by Louisa May Alcott

“The little girl’s eyes were squeezed tightly shut and she bore the angry expression unique to babies who had just been wrenched from the…

— Kathryn Hughes

“She tried not to be gloomy at funerals. People lived, and died, and were remembered. It happened in the same way that winter followed…

— I Shall Wear Midnight Terry Pratchett

“And then she grew uneasy and full of gloom and thought to herself that if the child were joy yet was it a new…

— Pearl S. Buck

“...little girls are raised on fairy tales. No one ever tells you that sad things stay sad, some people die angry and unforgiven, and…

— Lisa Unger

“And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind of world, one that she knew in…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

“the loss pressed down on her chest and came up into her throat. it was a fine cry -- loud and long -- but…

— Toni Morrison

“Stories of her children when they were small, their round little bodies barely containing their personalities, which bloomed and glittered and melted into her.”

— Erica Bauermeister

“the sorrow she carried around that made her smile come a second too late and made her ears grow dull so that her children…

— Marisa Silver

“She weeps, like all the weak people in the world, for the lost days, for the way things once were and will never be…

— Thomas Cullinan

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

— M.E. Vaughan

“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of…

— Anna Kavan

“She was a dangerous, dangerous girl. A plague. A Mountain of Adamant who tore the iron from ships, sinking them to their watery graves…

— Renee Ahdieh