Tea Obreht Quotes

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

It's been difficult for me to get my head around Diana's death or talk about it. After she died, things were difficult, very difficult. We all have our own traumas and get on with it. But when it's there in your face year in, year out, it's hard.

When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes.

I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.

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

It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.

I lost three cousins and a best friend, and they all came at the wrong time. Everyone told me to be strong and that they were in a better place. But I didn't want to hear that. They were gone and I will never see them again.

My father passed away when I was 18. It was the worst thing that ever happened to me, but it is not like that all the time. Not every moment is dark.

When Mom died I couldn't stop crying, but both Angie and I really believe she's in a better place.

Talking about the loss of my parents... that was really, really difficult to go through.

I know when my parents passed away, I wanted all the support I could get.

I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.

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

After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.

My grandfather's death was really hard to deal with.

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

In December 1988, my mother died of lung cancer. I died too. I couldn't function.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more.

I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.

The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.