James Dashner Quotes

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.'

It was the saddest day of my life.

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

You're an idiot," she whispered tearfully. Finally, he opened his eyes and stared up at her; by then, she had moved on to stroking his hair and crying. She sat beside him on the edge of the bed, trying very hard not to bump him or let her cold tears fall on his bare chest and arms. For a moment he blinked at her. Then he asked, "Are you dead too?

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

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

Grief is exhausting.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.

I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.

There is a drunkenness to grief, which is good.

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

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.

There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

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.

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

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.

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

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

Having your heart broken is like going through grief, it's really hard.