Capable Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

— Dean Koontz

So much wanting and longing, clutching, desiring, passion and hatred and terrible need. Here, death was suitable, there was room for it, the grip…

— Janet Fitch

…determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.

— Anonymous

“She did not like seeing her loved ones like this, bent over with sorrow; everything in her wanted to cry out, to thrash and…

— Anne Ursu

all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately — and the decision must be…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the…

— Pam Houston

“She had so much love to give - she had always felt that - and now there was somebody to whom she could give…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Unfortunately, she discovered too late that her unwritten list of desirable attributes was missing a few crucial items. Empathy, for one. A willingness to…

— Delphine Dryden

She should have remembered that people have given everything they own, everything they are, to be taken care of, and to have their pain…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“Neither did she realise yet that grief is a kind of glue, too, that the essence of humanity is this empathy, and that we…

— Niall Williams

“… but she herself embodies their greatest, most therapeutic gift: the message that we are here to be here , to go through it…

— James Hollis

“She wanted everyone kind and affectionate, not passionate and tormenting – everything open, no maggoty secrets and silences, and no arguments with other, darker…

— Margaret Mahy