Lois Lowry Quotes

The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.

I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.

I think that people always say when people pass away that time heals all wounds. And that's probably the biggest lie. It's not true. I think we all need to remember that it is always still tough, and it's like losing a piece of your heart.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

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.

When you - when someone dies in your family and you think you're over it, and then you wake up in the morning and it hits you, 'I won't ever see my brother again. I won't ever see my mom again.' And it just kind of hits you like that.

Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.

I think loss of loved ones is the hardest blow in life.

I had a daughter and lost her a long while ago. That's too sad a story to go into.

My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.

Nothing had prepared me for the depth of pain George's death precipitated.

Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

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

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

I just didn't want to admit that he was dead.

It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable.

My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

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

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

To hear my mother say, 'Michael is dead,' to feel and hear the tone in her voice to say her child is dead, is nothing that anyone can ever imagine.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.