“There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.”— Bret Easton Ellis, Patrick Bateman , amazon.com
“Because we had known the good times, I think my brother and I felt the loss more acutely. My father's waning presence, his chronic absence, his disappearance. Now he was just a memory.”— Bryan Cranston, amazon.com
“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mocke…”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“The only feeling of real loss is when you love someone more than you love yourself”— Robin Williams, amazon.com
“When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.”— John Green, amazon.com
“What a loss to spend that much time with someone, only to find out that she's a stranger.”— Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth, Joel Barish, Jim Carrey, imdb.com
“A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our pride…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“He’d always liked the idea: a stone means the life is over. You don’t have to forget the life, but you have to leave it behind.”— Shane Delaney, narrativemagazine.com
“Sometimes the things you’ve lost can be found again in unexpected places.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com