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"You don't know who is important to you until you actually lose them."

"I tried to imagine him capital-S Somewhere as we prayed, but even then I could not quite convince myself that he and I would be together again. I already knew too many dead people. I knew that time would now pass for me differently then it would for him- that I, like everyone in that room, would go on accumulating loves and losses while he would not. And for me, that was the final and truly unbearable tragedy: Like all the innumerable dead, he'd once and for all been demoted from haunted to haunter."

"Our world ends and some people never understand how much we really loved them."

"I straightened up and looked out the plane window at the dark clouds hanging over the North Sea, thinking of what I had lost in the course of my life: times gone forever, friends who had died or disappeared, feelings I would never know again."
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"It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be."


"All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real."


"Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. "It's a start," I said."


"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."


"For once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world."


"I planned my whole future around Adam,' she said now, quietly. 'And now I have nothing.''No,' I told her, 'now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet."


"Fine," he repeated, and I wondered why it was I kept coming back to this, again and again, a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth."


"But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud."


"If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end."
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