“She’s scared you’re going to leave because that’s what she knows, that’s what’s familiar.”— Nicole Tarkoff, thoughtcatalog.com
“Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat.”— Nicole Williams, amazon.com
“The truth is, he isn’t ever going to care. He isn’t ever going to come back. He isn’t going to wake up one day and come running towards you.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“One day the person you talked to constantly or did stuff with is just absent. Gone. Poof.”— Nico Lang, thoughtcatalog.com
“You miss the strangest things when you lose someone. Little things. Smiles.”— Fredrik Backman, amazon.com
“Time, memory, loss, and love are my artistic concerns, but time, among all of them, becomes the determinant.”— Sally Mann, theguardian.com
“A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope.”— Geraldine Solon, amazon.com
“You are a miracle that happened to someone else. A shooting star that went by on a night that by fate or by chance; I missed.”— Pat Pace, thoughtcatalog.com
“I missed her so much I wanted to die: a hard, physical longing, like a craving for air underwater.”— Donna Tartt, amazon.com
“Anytime I photograph a person, there is loss implicit in the image, because the next time I photograph them, they will have changed.”— Jock Sturges, amazon.com
“When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”— Pittacus Lore, amazon.com
“I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never was - my dashed hopes, my dashed dreams, and my soured expectations.”— E.L. James, amazon.com
“It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is -- a sense of loss for something you never had.”— Deb Caletti, amazon.com
“The pain, their loss it’s all I have left of them.”— Ed Brubaker, Jonathan Nolan, Dolores Abernathy, Evan Rachel Wood, imdb.com
“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com