Kami Garcia Quotes

Red and raw like my heart, pried from your's, the two beating, no longer together, but a thousand miles between them when only yesterday they thumped in unison.

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.

From losing my mom, I'll never be okay; I'll never be put together again.

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.

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.

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

It would be a lie to say that people are coming to adoption with joy at all times. Hope, perhaps, but it would be disingenuous to say that every part coming to an adoption isn't seriously grieving.

I just didn't want to admit that he was dead.

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Anyone with a heart, with a family, has experienced loss. No one escapes unscathed. Every story of separation is different, but I think we all understand that basic, wrenching emotion that comes from saying goodbye, not knowing if we'll see that person again - or perhaps knowing that we won't.

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

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

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

The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

It's very hard to lose someone who's the closest person to you in your life.

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.

Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.