Heartbreaking Quote by Shari J. Ryan

“It’s a mother’s job to give us the confidence needed to push through hard times.” — The Doctor’s Daughter: Totally heartbreaking and completely unforgettable…

— Shari J. Ryan

“On the planet O there has not been a war for five thousand years, she read, and on Gethen there has never been a…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“LAURA. There are some circumstances in a family which through honor and conscience one is forced to conceal from the whole world—— DOCTOR.”

— August Strindberg

“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way…

— Robert E. Merriam

“A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round. And this is…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“The obsession with past trauma refracts World Lit’s sense of belatedness, even when the genre advertises its contemporaneity. You can argue that we’re still…

— The editors n+1

World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.

— A. B. Yehoshua

“War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.”

— Margaret Mitchell

“My mother knew a man during the war. Theirs was a love story, and like any good love story, it left blood on the…

— Mark Slouka

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

— Anna Freud

“I have refused to believe that Mother will die. And by denying her cancer, even her death, I deny her life. Denial stops us…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“War is most unkind to the memories of survivors”

— Thabo Katlholo