Character-study Quote by Molly Collier

“She felt as if she'd always been holding a part of herself back, saving it, and she had a terrible fear she would end…

— Penelope Williamson

“She would survive because that was what she did. But the pain of a loss--the grief for something she could never have--would haunt her.”

— Allison Brennan

“She was becoming too familiar for her own comfort and peace of mind. It was not despair; but it seemed to her like life…

— Kate Chopin

“Her grief still burdened her, and she knew she would bear it the rest of her days.”

— Dana Fuller Ross

“I knew another women who lost as much as you. And do you know what she did with it-the loss?' He could barely stop…

— Sarah J. Maas

“She was no longer wresting with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in…

— George Eliot

“She was grieving the loss of her youth, the closing down of possibilities as life became what it was rather than what it might…

— Kimberley Freeman

“She'd long ago learned that only those with something to lose were afraid of dying.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living…

— Tess Hardwick

“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of…

— Anna Kavan

“Her grief was dignified and hidden, as is most grief, which is partly why there is always so much of it to go around.”

— Kevin Powers

“Not all loss was about grief. Sometimes it was the loss of fear, or consequence. Loss could be liberating.”

— Sarah Hilary