Jenna Blum Quotes

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

When you lose a mother or father, it's still the hardest time of your life.

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid.

I had written two or three books before my husband noticed that in every one of them a family member was missing. He suggested that it was because my father's death, when I was five, utterly changed my world. I can only suppose he is right and that this is the reason I am drawn to a narrative where someone's life is changed by loss.

I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose - you drop into a different kind of serious.

It's true you never know the full depth of a parent's touch in your life until they're gone. Even if you cared for them in their old age, there's never a way to prepare yourself for the death of a parent.

You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.

It's difficult in your life when both parents pass so quickly and you're not really that old when they move on. There is a big gap in your life. There's a hole. You learn to live with it but never forget it.

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

I don't think it's ever really easy to lose a loved one, especially your mother.

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

[On her father's death:] I didn't know his leaving would hurt so much.

One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.

Death doesn't make you sad- it makes you empty. That's what's so bad about it. All of your charms and beliefs and funny habits fall fast through a big black hole, and suddenly you know they're gone because just as suddenly, there's nothing left at all inside.

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

My dad passed away...and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom and dad.

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it.

I'd been told of all the things you're meant to feel when your father dies. Sudden freedom, growing up, the end of dependence, the step into the sunlight when no one is taller than you and you're in no one's shadow. I know what I felt. Lonely.

It's wrong," he says. "It doesn't matter if your parents are in a better place, they aren't here with you, and that's wrong, Tris. It shouldn't have happened. It shouldn't have happened to you. And anyone who tells you it's okay is a liar.

that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep

To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!

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