444 quotes found
“If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.”
“Goodbyes are not easy, but I'm ready to move on. I'm not reluctant, Emma, not holding back. I don't have answers to the questions, but I have some good questions. I have loved life, but I believe t...”
“The ticking of the clock has gotten so loud." - 74”
“And then I feel guilty, because I know all these offers are made in vain. I know I cannot get my mother back healthy for a day. ... My mom is sick, sick and dying, and no bargaining will change tha...”
“I'd much rather be hold up with a ball of yarn, tucked inside the safety of the house with my mother. Out there, you must come to grips with the rot and bone, bloom and disintegration. It's part of...”
“It's not that I am not moved by these things, that I don't them in my life. But lately, their power has diminished." - 140”
“I wanted to keep looking at her because I wanted to never take my eyes from her, but still I had tolower my eyes, I was so ashamed that even now Jenny was reading my mind so perfectly.'Listen, that...”
“I met death for the last time realizing that he, the creature I called, it because I did not want to believe came for me... Collecting.”
“Where were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die?”
“The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man.”
“Death is not good. Its just a fact. We don't need to give it so much importance. So I don't want to read anything that talks about it.”
“Death is the final destination of every man.”
“The dead only knows their world.”
“The greatest loss is the lost of life.”
“Life is not profound without its own tragedy. It humbles us. Sets the bar for our introspection. Keeps us from believing we are gods. Puts our egos in check.”
“He tried to disguise how tired and ill he was, how depressing the thought of death was to him and how he spent his days and nights thinking up schemes of living beyond what the prognosis said. His ...”
“The ending shouldn't determine the meaning of anything, a story or a life. Logically, I don't think it can--didn't Heidegger say something to that effect? That the meaning of all our moments cannot...”
“This is unbelievable, James said. I mean, you guys are out here planning to build an armored car out of my dads old, and I mean old, car. Mom is in the house making cookies like this is just an eve...”
“I know youre tiredbut this is your time, Laney. Claim your power. Make everythingfrom the beginning until the endmake it all count.”
“Losing myself interests me. The fertile topsoil interests me, sprawling beneath a light dusting of snow, and the snow that crams the trunks and branches of the pines and elms and redwoods, having f...”
