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You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remai...

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April ended and May came along, but May was even worse than April. In the deepening spring of May, I...

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Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are pro...

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We keep moving. And as we do, the things around us, well, they disappear.

For darkness terrifies. It swallows you, warps you, nullifies you. Who alive can possibly profess co...

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Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distor...

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings...

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Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings...

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Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

I would never see her again, except in memory. She was here, and now she's gone. There is no middle ...

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So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the ...

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Haruki MurakamiSputnik Sweetheart

So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal theloss, no matter how important the t...

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Each memory was now the shadow of a shadow of a shadow. The only thing that remained tangible to him...

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But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each ot...

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What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

If there were no life beyond this earth-life, some people I have known would gain immortality by the...

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What is so sweet as to awake from a troubled dream and behold a beloved face smiling upon you? I lov...

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We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those w...

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Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. ...

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Passing beneath the dance hall, thinking again of this book, I realized suddenly that our life had c...

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There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.

He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths ...

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Hermann HesseSiddhartha: An Indian Tale

The two brothers who sought to get their only family back, to feel her warmth, one lost his last fam...

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Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

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HoraceThe Odes of Horace

How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved?...

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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bom...

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No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!"And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was k...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

How awful it was, thought Tessa, remembering Fats the toddler, the way tiny ghosts of your living ch...

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In a while the organism will repair itself, and I, the ghost within it, will be my old self again. B...

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For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted...

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Monsters and the Critics and other essays

When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the drea...

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Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . ...

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Who has believed in the world and died with its name on his lips?

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Jack KerouacWindblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

When you are at a loss of words then go with your feelings. If you feel nothing you must rely on you...

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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which c...

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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against ...

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I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and e...

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His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

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Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey

A loss may be sometimes a gain.

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Jane AustenNorthanger Abbey

All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is t...

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I do not know where I am going or what I will do when I get there. I know only that to put one foot ...

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Jane YolenThings to Say to a Dead Man: Poems at the End of a Marriage and After

from Taking Your Clothes to the Salvation Army:Okay, so strangers will be grateful for this, will we...

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Jane YolenThings to Say to a Dead Man: Poems at the End of a Marriage and After

Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even e...

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It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hy...

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I thought about the dog and was suddenly very sad; sad about her death, for my death, for all the in...

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Perhaps it is worse when love has flowed freely to find it one day dammed.

Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wai...

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Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wai...

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There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.

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Jeanette WintersonOranges Are Not the Only Fruit

...love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic yo...

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Why is the measure of love loss?

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Adoption is outside. You act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn't belong. And you act it...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter y...

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Jeanette WintersonWritten on the Body

I never advise friends to put money in anything,. said Danny. 'It's a no-win situation - if they mak...

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March 12Dear Stargirl, Hey, you're a big girl now. Stop being such a baby. You think you're the onl...

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There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it...We might expect that we will be pr...

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Farewell, my dearest. You have but gone ahead...but I shall follow, and run, at last, again into you...

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Joan Walsh AnglundThe Friend We Have Not Met: Poems of Consolation

There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, y...

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I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got ...

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Jodi PicoultChange of Heart

It was so damn hard to find love in this world, to locate someone who could make you feel that there...

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Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who ...

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Jodi PicoultHarvesting the Heart

If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just detail...

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How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose ...

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If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even...

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Goldfish get big enough only for the bowl you put them in. Bonsai trees twist in miniature. I would ...

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wis...

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Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain ...

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You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.

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Jodi PicoultSing You Home

How could she trust this man, so imprecise with his words, to take care of the burial? To say there ...

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When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take...

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There are all sorts of losses people suffer- from the small to the large. You can lose your car keys...

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How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling a...

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Jodi PicoultThe Storyteller

It was no coincidence, that fear could move a person to extremes, just as seamlessly as love. They w...

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Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.

How do you do it?""Do what?""All of it. You know. Go to class and practice. Make it through the day....

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When I go out by the gateway, taking the road I drove along that first time I picked up Lotte for th...

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The dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little ...

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The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually ...

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When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar.The mind ca...

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We shall be forced to attempt planned and directed research employing hundreds of workers for many y...

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Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its gui...

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You can love someone so much… But you can never love someone as much as you miss them.

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John Green (author)An Abundance of Katherines

That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it.

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John Green (author)Looking for Alaska

There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Th...

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You can't just make me different and then leave

You get all these friends when just when you don't need friends anymore.

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

You don't get to chose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts...

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Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.

im in love with you and im not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true ...

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The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember w...

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Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters."Computer: "I don't understand-"Issac: "M...

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Ever since the Christmas of '53, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families ...

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John IrvingA Prayer for Owen Meany

When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose he...

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John IrvingA Prayer for Owen Meany