Quote by Madeleine Urban

“Losing someone that close to you doesn’t allow you to stay the same person you were before. She knew that, and so did he.”

— Heidi Dischler

“She understood all too well what it was like to lose someone who you loved so much that it physically hurt to think about…

— Paul Pilkington

“He held onto his grief as a way to hold on to who he was grieving. He felt that his pain was his last…

— Sean Norris

“You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss.”

— Ann Aguirre

“Grief held on. It would not let go of loss, because to do that was to accept it. I told that to grieving families…

— Patricia Cornwell

“Sometimes when you lose someone, it’s at that moment that you realize how much they mean to you. And when that happens, and when…

— Jennifer Farwell

“I lost someone very close to me and afterward I believed I could have saved him had I been a better friend to him.…

— Dave Eggers

“It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now…

— Alice Hoffman

“I closed my eyes against the sudden sorrow that someone I knew so well should be someone who consistently brought me so much grief.”

— Megan Hart

“no pain was permanent, and no loss was real. That even though people treated each other abominably, even though they left, even though you…

— Lisa Alther

“She was afraid of getting too close to anyone. To her, closeness represented a loss rather than a gain.”

— Mitsuyo Kakuta

“And as horrible as that felt in this moment, it was almost a relief. Because he didn't need to worry about loss if he…

— Tere Michaels