Quote by Minoru Kawakami

“Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight: Do…

— William Shakespeare

“What he felt, though, was the echo of her flesh, and the reverberations of their farewell, with all its doubts and pleasures.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Ay! Louder, Vengeance, much louder, and still she will scarcely hear thee. Louder yet, Vengeance, with a little oath or so added, and yet…

— Charles Dickens

Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now…

— Aeschylus

“She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those…

— Anne Rice

“Think not that thou canst fail of entering into rest. If he hath called thee, nothing can divide thee from his love. Distress cannot…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity.”

— Toni Morrison

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He is Thy best servant who looks not so much to hear that from Thee which himself willeth, as rather to will that, which…

— St. Augustine Bishop of Hippo

“Blessed is she who believed the Lord would fulfill His promises to her”

— Luke 1 45

“She closed her eyes. Said the four most comforting words she knew: "Once upon a time." An incantation.”

— Jennifer McMahon

“Eternal rest, grant unto her, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon her. May her soul and all the souls of the faithfully…

— Ann Patchett