Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt...and I could shatter into strange razor-sharp shards.

Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

I think that people always say when people pass away that time heals all wounds. And that's probably the biggest lie. It's not true. I think we all need to remember that it is always still tough, and it's like losing a piece of your heart.

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'

I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

I think the worst kind of grief is unacknowledged grief.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

Sometimes words are harder than blows.

I've had my heart broken, and it's the hardest thing. Everyone says, 'Give it time, you'll feel better in the morning.' But you don't. You feel like it's never, ever going to heal - especially during the first few weeks.

I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.

Having your heart broken is like going through grief, it's really hard.

To lose two babies is really scary. It really caught on me emotionally, physically, everything. It took me at least 15 years to get over it and still, to this day, I miss my son.

bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

I didn’t get her cutting at all. She’d done it sporadically, ever since the accident and it scared me each time. She'd try to explain it to me, how she didn't want to die—she just needed to get it out somehow. She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet—physical pain—was the only way to make the internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it.

I have some scars... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.