“Sometimes it feels like everyone’s moved on, but they all miss you in their own way. Mom, there’s not a day that goes by when I don’t think about you. The good news is I know now I’m not crazy. I was saved by a beast. He didn’t get there in time to save you, but he’s still out there. And I have a feeling that now, we’re going to have to save each other.” – Beauty and the Beast

“‘I’m not into bullshit clichés like dying.’” – Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe

“See, but… that’s bullshit. That’s what everyone has been telling me since the beginning. ‘Oh, you’re gonna be okay,’ and ‘Oh, everything’s fine,’ and like, it’s not… It makes it worse… that no one will just come out and say it. Like, ‘hey man, you’re gonna die.’” – 50/50

“I have heard many people say, who have lost a loved one, that in some ways it is like learning to live with an amputation. You do heal, but you are never the same.” – Courageous

“I wish I could see some people just one more time you know just to let them know that they’ve made a difference in my life and I appreciate them; to let them know that a part of them will always be with me; to tell them that I’ll never forget them.”

“When my time comes, scatter my ashes in the mountains, have a drink, tell yourselves, ‘She lived well…She had a few laughs.’” – Summer Sisters by Judy Blume

“When you lose someone you love, you never get over it. You just get used to it.”

“It’s complicated. I think when bad things happen–whether someone dies or people argue or split up–you get to a point where it’s just too hard to go back. There’s so much lost. So many versions of the truth. So many versions of how things might’ve turned out differently. We all long for what could have been. For some people, it’s just easier to move forward and try to forget.” – Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah

“You’ll get over it…it’s the cliches 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 articulateness 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

“Everything changes eventually, that’s just the way life is and you have no control over it.. like, suddenly, people who you think are always going to be there.. they disappear.. you know, people die and they move away.. and they grow up.”

“Every day we face the same truth: that our time here is short. And to honor the fallen we must live our own lives well. We must take the high road when we can and allow our common loss to bring us together.” – One Tree Hill

“she felt it, felt his death in the emptiness that had spread through her heart.” – Lovers & Dreamers by Nora Roberts.

“Once they’ve suffered a miscarriage, some women sit alone in the dark for hours. They refuse to go out in the light of day, afraid to face the possibility that life will go on. They hold onto reminders of their unborn child and dream of what might have been.” – Desperate Housewives

“Andy: Delia, when someone we love dies, it’s okay to be sad about it for awhile. For as long as you need to be really. But you-you, just can’t hang on to all the love that you used to give to that person. Delia: Why not? Andy: Because–love’s not worth a whole lot if you just keep it to yourself.” – Everwood

“Can you imagine what it feels like to have someone sit you down and tell you that you’re dying? The gravity of that, hmm? Then the clock’s ticking for you. In a split second your awe is cracked open. You look at things differently – smell things differently. You savor everything be it a glass of water or a walk in the park. But most people have the luxury of not knowing when that clock’s going to go off. And the irony of it is that that keeps them from really living their life. It keeps them drinking that glass of water but never really tasting it.”

“Everybody, everybody says life has to go on and it just feels like such a big insult to you if life just goes on.” – Ally McBeal

“You left before I had a chance to say goodbye, but that’s the way life usually is–it just passes you by. But you can’t hold on to regrets and you can’t look back, so I’ll just be thankful for the times that I had with you. I hope I’m just like you.” – Plain White T’s, “radios in heaven”

“When the people we love are stolen from us, the only way to keep them is to never stop loving them. People die, buildings burn, but eternal love lasts forever.” – The Crow

“Do you remember when you loved me, before the world took you away. Well if you do, then forgive me and make the world, make it go away.” – Martina McBride, “make the world go away”

“When I look back to the beginning I think of your smile. I think of how for a moment life was worthwhile. I think of the way you held my hand, kissed me softly, and could always understand. I think of the day you looked at me and our eyes met. These are the things I’ll never forget. But now when I see my reflection and I look into my own eyes, I think of how I lost you. How we lost each other. I know one day you’ll be breaking hearts in Heaven, but what can I do now that you’ve broken mine?”

“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.” – Doris Day

“We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.” – The Bucket List

“I am going to have to get out of bed every morning, and live every day with your image etched into my memory. Every time I close my eyes I will see your face, every time the room gets so silent you can hear a pin drop your voice will come to me. Every time I blink away the tears, your arms will enclose me. Every time I pray I will send kisses up to heaven for you. My only wish is that I didn’t have to live here with you there..”

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“It’s hard not to see things as beginnings and endings. When someone dies, you want to mark time before or after. . . but time is time. It’s a continuous motion, and we divide it into increments to pretend to have some control over it. To make it neat and manageable.” – Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis

“Your kisses, your heavenly touch will keep me from letting go of your loss. I will always remember your gentle words. Love lasts forever.”

“Quentin Fields was a basketball player. He was also a son, a brother… Somebody’s teammate, somebody’s friend. I didn’t know Quentin Fields, and I guess now I never will. Did you ever wonder what it would be like if you weren’t you anymore? If you were suddenly gone, how would your world react? Whatever you imagined is wrong. There’s nothing romantic about death. Grief is like the ocean… it’s deep and dark and bigger than all of us. And pain is like a thief in the night. Quiet, persistent, unfair… Diminished by time and fate and love. I didn’t know Quentin Fields, but I’m jealous of him. Because I see how his absence has affected the people that did know him, so I know that he mattered to them, and I know he was loved. People say Quentin Fields was a great basketball player. Graceful, fluid, inspiring. They say on a good night it almost seemed that he could fly… and now he can.” – One Tree Hill

“‘once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.’” – Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

“There are just certing things that remind me of you… words.. clothes.. prayers.. people…i am reminded of how much you mean to me how much i just want to throw my arms around you and make it all better…i often sit and wonder how its going to be when your not here for me to be reminded of..will i be ok? will i be able to stand on my own? or will my heart break into a million pieces? will i be left sitting on the floor with my arms wrapped around my knees..praying that i will be ok? praying that God has taken you to a better place…praying that someday i will be again able to stand on my own..”

“It doesn’t matter what you say about somebody once they’re gone. What matters is how you treat them when they’re still here.” – 90210