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  • #1
    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #2
    Nicholson Baker
    “I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.”
    Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

  • #3
    Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
    “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
    Roald Dahl

  • #4
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.”
    Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

  • #5
    Paulo Coelho
    “Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.”
    Paulo Coelho

  • #6
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

  • #7
    Roald Dahl
    “I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.”
    Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox

  • #8
    Kelley Armstrong
    “Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.”
    Kelley Armstrong, The Calling

  • #9
    George Bernard Shaw
    “What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.”
    George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

  • #10
    Linda Hawley
    “Though I knew in my mind that others had felt such loss, this loss was mine, and I felt that no one would ever understand it, and to try to explain the lonliness and pain I felt would be futile.”
    Linda Hawley, Dreams Unleashed

  • #11
    William Shakespeare
    “Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.”
    Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #12
    Elizabeth McCracken
    “Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.”
    Elizabeth McCracken
    tags: grief

  • #13
    “Though sorrow may impede my heart,
    It is of great love to have known you.”
    C. Elizabeth

  • #15
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    “When love is not madness it is not love.”
    Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  • #16
    Hisham Matar
    “Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.”
    Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men

  • #17
    John Green
    “You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
    John Green

  • #18
    Colette
    “It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. ”
    Colette

  • #19
    John Steinbeck
    “It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
    John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

  • #20
    Arthur Golden
    “At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”
    Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #22
    E.A. Bucchianeri
    “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
    E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

  • #23
    Jess Rothenberg
    “You did love me," I whispered. "Just not the same way I loved you.”
    Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me

  • #24
    J.D. Salinger
    “I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
    J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

  • #25
    J.D. Salinger
    “She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
    J.D. Salinger

  • #26
    The world was hers for the reading.
    “The world was hers for the reading.”
    Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

  • #27
    Arthur Miller
    “...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.”
    Arthur Miller, The Crucible

  • #28
    Stephen Chbosky
    “So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
    Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

  • #29
    William Shakespeare
    “Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #30
    J.D. Salinger
    “When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

  • #31
    J.D. Salinger
    “I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye



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