Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

When I arrived in France, I cried every day. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.

I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.

When my mother first passed away some time ago, I didn't enjoy food anymore. I just ate to live. My mother had always cooked so well that I didn't think I could follow her.

For me, often, there's such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I'm going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don't know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

'Cinderella' touches on loss, and there was definitely a strong sense of grief in my life.

I have a, you know, a John Ritter-shaped hole in my heart. Nobody can replace that.

When I went to college, my mum was really sad, so she preserved my bedroom, like a weird time capsule.

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die - it's a major offence.

The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.

In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.

And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.

I must write you a line of deepest sympathy. I know how you must be suffering about Constance. We cannot disguise from ourselves that our old Constance has gone forever. I feel, whatever it may be in the future, for the moment she has passed out of the lives of her family. She has become an impersonal being, and no one will feel this so much as you.

The loss of my father left a great emptiness in my heart.

It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

It's everyone's dread to lose a child. You lose someone you love so much, so young. It does hit you like nothing else, and there is a bit of you that thinks, well, if you can face that sort of challenge in your life, then it puts everything else into perspective.

Grief reveals itself in the most mundane activities, like eating. It's never when you're looking at old pictures.

My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast. It was very bittersweet when we said goodbye to our relatives, and I remember crying my eyes out at the airport.

My wife and son cried when we left Portugal, but I had to move.

I don't think breakups are ever easy for anybody. If they are, they aren't much of a breakup.

It's awkward to tell others that your spouse has died. Everyone becomes so sad and sorry, and you just hate like heck to have to break the news to someone who hasn't heard the news.

When you lose a parent, it's a strange feeling. It's a hard thing to get used to.

My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.