Life Quote by Lynn Viehl

“My child died last night—and now I shall be alone again, if I must really go on living. They will come tomorrow, strange, hulking,…

— Stefan Zweig

“Would you think, my dear, anybody might perhaps be spared from taking this path? That perhaps your little son would be spared, because you…

— Hermann Hesse

“He who waits for permission to live will find himself buried with the others who did the same.”

— David Maze

“Was he coming to bury the hatchet? Was there a hatchet to even be buried? For some reason I started thinking of how weird…

— Nick Burd

“We stood-- the dead child and the living --on either side of my father, both wanting the same thing. To have him to ourselves…

— Alice Sebold

“Leaning against my father, the sadness finally broke open inside me, hollowing out my heart and leaving me bleeding. My feet felt rooted in…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“father without my mother. He needed her—probably more than I did. I was afraid that without her to anchor him to a normal life…

— Kimberly Rae Miller

“I used to think this heroic: my sturdy, stable dad, capable of anything. But now I realize that he's just drawn to dying, helpless…

— Kate Ellison

“You should bury more than the dead. You should try harder. You should give up.”

— Olena Kalytiak Davis

“Isn’t that sweet of my only son to travel all this way so he can whine about his pathetic little friend? Maybe if I…

— David Sedaris

“I am ten years old again, and I cannot imagine life without him.”

— Lauren Nowlin

“Like most, I was a solitary boy at first, keeping to my books and weeping in the hedgerows whenever I could get away on…

— Alan Bradley