Ann Nocenti Quotes

Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

I've always had a really difficult time with loss.

It took me a year to talk about my miscarriage.

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

I had a tough year, losing my dad. And I really needed to have some quiet time, and not be engaged the way I normally would be with the Lakers.

Sometimes I feel like I've forgotten how to be the mom after the death of my son.

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around.

It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered.

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.

After losing Steve, it does kind of feel like I'm free-falling.

After I lost my mom, something snapped inside of me and I got really angry.

Everyone deals with grief in their own way.

None of us are immune to grief, and everyone who has suffered loss understands that grief changes, but you never wake up one morning and you've moved on. It stays with you, and, you know, you ebb and flow.

I write about what happens in my life - and my dad's passing was a huge blow to me.

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.

You learn to accept losing someone, but you never get over it.

I've had - after my mom passed away - like a lot of resentment, a lot of things that just happened after I lost my mom.

Some people lose a whole world to grief sometimes, while others just don't grieve. Sometimes we're just too scared to face our emotions.

It's not easy to adapt to losing a lot.

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

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

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

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