Compelling-first-words Quote by Tea Obreht

“People say they miss the deceased. I missed my father and my mother when they were still fully alive. They travelled through my childhood…

— Sylvia Kristel

“Grandpa didn't die tonight. He died the minute you took 'im off the place [...] He was that place, an' he knowed it.”

— John Steinbeck

“Today my uncle died.and i am not feeling sad because he is dead.i am sad about that i can never see him alive again…

— Sher E Yazdan

“None of his colleagues or friends, or former colleagues or former friends, had died. Sometimes it amazed him that he’d managed to live forty-two…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“My grandpa passed a few days ago. But I’m not sad. He was only driving 20 miles an hour, so I’m sure I’ll catch…

— Jarod Kintz

“Who had he been? A failed father, a runaway husband. A son. A packet of unopened letters. He was dead; he was dead.”

— Anthony Doerr

“Maybe no one person should be that important that their absence drains life of meaning, but he was. Day after day and the loss…

— C.K. Kelly Martin

“Work, my boy! forget me for a few years; I'd only give you bad advice; don't mention our meeting to your uncle- it might…

— Jules Verne

“The last two days I’ve been on long bus rides, driven through the countryside on the back of a motorbike, and crossed rivers on…

— Tucker Elliot

“My uncle told a great story with his life, but I think there was such a sadness at his funeral because his story wasn't…

— Donald Miller

“It was a house halfway between this and that, between upper-middle-class luxuries and absentminded squalor. My father had been too distracted, while he was…

— Justin Evans

“There’s nothing like the memory of a lost friend to remind a man of his own mortality.”

— John J. Winters