"Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone."

Loss, Nostalgia, Beauty, Absence

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"Oh, everything is gorgeous once it's gone."

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"I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I - as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again - it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Loss, Identity, Loneliness, Comfort

"She could not keep his death in her head, like when she tried to imagine the infiniteness of the universe and nearly swooned at the vastness of the thought."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Loss, Death, Universe, Infinity, Mind

"The wealth of time we wastage, is worth much more than all the natural resources we have on the earth."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Loss, Time, Resources, Wealth

"To waste time is to lose life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Loss, Time, Waste, Life

"You'll get over it. It's the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don't get over it because it is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you, and no one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?"

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Loss, Grief, Love, Pain

"She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

Loss, Mourning, History, Future

"I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting - the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the single moment that I lost myself. Lost what made me Sam. The part of me that could remember Grace's name."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Loss, Pain, Memory, Identity

"There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Loss, Love, Grief, Memory

"I lost a horse today.''That sounds careless. What happened?''She jumped off a cliff.''A cliff! Is that normal?"

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Loss, Animals, Death, Emotion

"We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Loss, Memory, Support, Friendship

Explore more quotes by Gregory Maguire

"To read, even in the half-dark, is also to call the lost forward."

Education

"What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on we go, the more meaning there is but the less articulable. You live your life, and the older you get " the more specificity you harvest " the more precious becomes every ounce and spam. Your life and times don't drain of meaning because they become more contradictory, ornamented by paradox, inexplicable. Rather the opposite, maybe. The less explicable, the more meaning. The less a mathematics equation (a sum game); the more like music (significant secret)."

Philosophy

"To the grim poor there need be no pourquoi tale about where evil arises; it just arises; it always is. One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her--is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil...?"

Morality

"Do good though, will you?" She blinked brightly at the green girl. "If not for your parents or your grandmother, then for me?"

Compassion

"It isn't hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow."

Morality

"What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine."

Emotions

"A world emerging, daily, out of nothing, a world that we trust to resemble what we've seen previously. We should know better."

Reality

"But this was fancy, she was succumbing to fancy in a way she hadn't done before."

Life

"Nothing in the Grimmerie on how to depose a tyrant - nothing useful... Nothing there that described why men and women could turn out so horrible. Or so wonderful - if that ever happens anymore."

Tyranny

"Don't let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every collection of letters is a magic spell, even if it's a moronic proclamation by the Emperor. Words have their impact, girl. Mind your manners. I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing."

Literacy