Lisa Kleypas Quotes

A loss of a great friend is traumatic and emotionally tough.

I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back on her now, I felt another piece die as well. Soon there wouldn't be anything left inside me.

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 was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

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.'

When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief.

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.

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

Nothing had prepared me for the depth of pain George's death precipitated.

Despair is part of love.

The day is breaking someone else's heart.

Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.

A heart weighs more when it splits in two; it crashes in the chest like a broken plane.

People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.

Losing me will hurt; it will be the kind of pain that won't feel real at first, and when it does, it will take her breath away.

Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.

I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.

And often the worst thing wasn't the victims--they were dead, after all, and beyond any more pain. The worst thing was those who loved them and survived them. Often the walking dead from now on, shell-shocked, hearts ruptured, stumbling through the remainder of their lives without anything left inside of them but blood and organs, impervious to pain, having learned nothing except that the worst things did, in fact, sometimes happen. (Mystic River)

My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.

But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

If drinking don't kill me, her memory will.

My mother's death was very painful as it occurred over a period of a week. Watching her die was the hardest thing my dad ever went through.

I am tired of losing people.