Quote by Maggie Stiefvater

“In her experience, dead children, unlike dead adults, always looked as if they were sleeping - though she understood that there was an element…

— Chris Bohjalian

“There’s something life-giving about children, even in a time of mourning, something that helps people see beyond their immediate losses.”

— J.A. Jance

“If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behaviour,…

— Harper Lee

“There's a bench, worn smooth by decades of widows and nannies; I sit, and wonder if he will, if he'll remember it was ours…

— Richard Kramer

“I instead was reminded of watching my cousins at Thanksgiving through my own front windows, that strange sense of distance, even where you should…

— Claire Messud

“It seems like our town has closed down these days leading up to the funeral. Old people still sit on their porches and talk,…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving old woman…

— Charles Palliser

“But there is no easy way to mourn a child.”

— Nancy E. Turner

“A good relationship with our children is the ultimate comfort we have while dying.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“And as if he had read her thoughts, the old man murmured, 'What a blessing it is to die in your own bed, under…

— Anita Rau Badami

“For now, they had simpler concerns. Keeping the children from the roofs at night, the bereaved from crying out too loud, the young in…

— Clive Barker

“To each of the mourners outside in the lane, I would be no more than a pale face glimpsed for a moment behind the…

— Alan Bradley