Bridges Quote by Sarah Addison Allen

What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized…

— Abraham Verghese

Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the…

— Sigrid Undset

“She knew her death was near because time had begun to fold like a fan so that the past and the present rubbed together…

— Marisa Silver

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

— Judith Viorst

She remembered how she had felt cleaning out her father's clothes, wanting at once to hold on to every dirty handkerchief and musty page…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

— Thomas Hardy

“She had been grief stricken as her father lay dying but now she felt weightless, the way people do when they're no longer sure…

— Alice Hoffman

But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that…

— Willa Cather

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Horribly aware of what was happening, conscious, as she had never been before, that it was possible both to love her mother more than…

— Caroline Moorehead

Going back to my mother's passing, there was no way I could hold back my tears or sense of grief at knowing her physical…

— Michael Beckwith