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Louise Fitzhugh

WHEN SOMEBODY GOES AWAY THERE’S THINGS YOU WANT TO TELL THEM. WHEN SOMEBODY DIES MAYBE THAT’S THE WORST THING. YOU WANT TO TELL THEM THINGS THAT HAPPEN AFTER.

Audrey Niffenegger

…all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.

The real hell of this,” he told her, “is that you’re going to get through it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn’t do. All that I might have been and couldn’t be. All the choices I didn’t make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven’t been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.

Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I’m feeling things at last. I’m feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.

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.

Donna Lynn Hope

He passed through her with his soul caressing hers goodbye. And in that final hour he was with her one last time.

Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh and in our minds, they put on weight.

Nana Awere Damoah

Loss taught me. Loss taught me that death comes to both the old and the young.

Nana Awere Damoah

Loss taught me the priceless value of friends. I would have lost it but for my friends.

William Kent Krueger

Loss, once it’s become a certainty, is like a rock you hold in your hand. It has weight and dimension and texture. It’s solid and can be assessed and dealt with. You can use it to beat yourself or you can throw it away.

You always have something left to lose. Until, of course, you die.