Ann Brashares Quotes

A loss feels like a loss.

Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning.

I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends.

And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.

If you gave me just a coin for every time we say goodbyeWell I'd be rich beyond my dreams, I'm sorry for my weary lifeI know I'm not perfect but I can smileand I hope that you see this heart behind my tired eyes.

I hated to lose.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

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.

I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn't think about this very much because I'm almost weeping when I think about it.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

I wanted to cry because it took me so many years

When it was all over, and I was left alone in my office, I put my face in my hands and wept. I could do nothing less.

Most of life is sad.

When something you love gets taken away, it hurts you.

I know what it's like to lose.

I know so many people who have tremendous regret in their life.

Whenever we lose, it is a sad day.

When I left Yale, it was so painful to me. I had worked so hard, gotten so far, and just walked away.

Losing hurts, it always hurts, and it should hurt.

The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn't the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?