"She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs."

Loss, Memory, Identity, Death

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"She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs."

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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

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"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

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"To waste time is to lose life."

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"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

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"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

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"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

"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

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

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

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