“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief – But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.”— Hilary Stanton Zunin, thoughtcatalog.com
“What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”— Helen Keller, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“It is 4am. Your perfume is on Everything, on me On all the world – you Are all around, you Are all of my tattered Senses and no poetry, No song, no writing, Nothing in the world Will make this better.”— David Jones, amazon.com
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.”— Vicki Harrison, thoughtcatalog.com
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”— Edna St. Vincent Millay, thoughtcatalog.com
“Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?”— Kiran Desai, amazon.com
“No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you’d had enough f…”— Adriana Trigiani, amazon.com
“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”— Ross Perot, keepinspiring.me
“He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish life. The rest was darkness. 'Damn it,' he sighed. 'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!'”— John Green, The General In His Labyrinth, amazon.com
“That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“The say time heals everything but honestly, I feel like time will never be on our side.”— R.M Drake, amazon.com
“He left feeling that if he had searched harder, he might have found her- that he was leaving her behind.”— F Scott Fitgerald, amazon.com
“I needed to hate someone and you’re the one I love the most, so it fell on you.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“All I'd ever wanted was to forget. But even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“What is death? A loss, a disappearance, a letting go, a saying good-bye. When you cling you refuse to let go, you refuse to say good-bye, you resist death. And even though you may not realize it, that is when you resist life too.”— Anthony De Mello, amazon.com