Emily Giffin Quotes

A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.

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And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

Grief is like a wheel that goes around and around the world.

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently.

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

When something you love gets taken away, it hurts you.

You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be around in awhile. Closure is impossible; that's the heart of the grief you will carry with you for the rest of your life.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.

I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.

Do i really want him dead? What i want... what i want is to have him back.

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rulebook that says it is all right to wake up crying, but only for a month. That after 42 days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass - if only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it's okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.

it was important to him that i know who she was, so im glad for that. but it makes me sad too. they loved each other so much, and now she's gone. it doesn't seem fair.

I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold, I'd have all the treasures my pockets could hold.

It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour. There are families all over the world staring at beds that are no longer slept in, shoes that are no longer worn. Families that no longer have to buy a particular cereal, a kind of shampoo. There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds. For years. For their whole lives. I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?

I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.