Parental Death Quotes

“One day I had a father, the next day I didn’t. A corpse came back to the castle instead of him, and his absence took its place at the dining table.”
― Katherine Macdonald, To Kill a Prince

“Even the foreseen loss of your parents at a normal age brings shocks you have not bargained for. One is that you must finally face the fact that you are grown up. While they are alive, you can be their child, even in middle age. They stand between you and death. With both of them gone, you are next in line.
But that is nothing compared to the unexpected gap, the vast space, not a desert or emptiness, because a desert has substance, and emptiness implies containment. An infinite nothing.”
― Monica Dickens, An Open Book