Patrick Ness Quotes

I feel emptiness, and he probably won't be able to close his eyes for two or three days.

A hundred hundred heartbeats..." whispered Sabriel, tears falling down her face.

I cry all the time.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

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

Mama was crying, and the rain made it seem as if the whole world was crying.

A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.

The day is breaking someone else's heart.

Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief.

Sorrow, on wing through the world for ever, Here and there for awhile would borrow Rest, if rest might haply deliver Sorrow.

Faded smiles oft linger in the face, While grief's first flakes fall silent on the heart!

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits.

Pearls mean tears.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

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

Of course the death of Geoffrey has caused a lot of trauma to me generally.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.

It was the saddest day of my life.

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.

I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.