End Quote by Mark Kozelek

In them days I just as soon died -- except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if…

— Sonny Terry

When I was in my late teens, a couple of friends passed away suddenly. This was quite distressing, but after a while, as tends…

— Ayobami Adebayo

After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been… It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

— Nancy Hale

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

— Andrew Solomon

When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was…

— Margaret Mahy

One of my first public performances was singing hymns at a funeral for a friend of our family.

— Christopher Jackson

My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and I never…

— Dani Shapiro

Whether they're ghosts of great writers or people I loved - some died because of AIDS, others under mysterious circumstances - I don't want…

— Lynne Tillman

My mother passed away when I was seven. She had a piano in the house that she was teaching my sisters how to play.…

— Ethan Slater

“The fear of death haunted me for a year. I cried whenever anyone dropped a glass or broke a picture. But even then that…

— Nicole Krauss

In high school, I had two friends that were suffering from cancer. I would go and sing for them while they were in hospital,…

— Matthew Morrison

I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when…

— Jack Kerouac