Beth Childs

“What does one call a mother who has lost a child? Amputee? That was how she felt. Now she was an amputated mother. How does one resign oneself to that? When?”
― Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees

“But who knows how long a grief may last? Isn't it possible that, even thirty or forty years after the death of a child or a brother or a sister, one may half waken, thinking of that person with the same lost emptiness, that feeling of places which may never be filled... not even in death?”
― Stephen King, It