Mayte Garcia Quotes

After my husband died, I could not write much - I could not concentrate. I was too exhausted most of the time even to contemplate writing. But I did take notes - not for fiction, but for a journal, or diary, of this terrible time. I did not think that I would ever survive this interlude.

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don't know if I will ever get over it.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

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

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.

When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.

Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

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.

I am lucky in that I have never been depressed in my life, but this is the one thing which has really affected me: the loss of my mother as I knew her.

No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that on my own.

In life, when you lose anyone, there's always an adjustment period - emotionally, mentally and physically.

I think any woman who has lost a child and certainly lost more than one child, there's going to be a part of them that they keep closed off forever.

It took me a year to talk about my miscarriage.

A loss of a great friend is traumatic and emotionally tough.

The toughest challenges I've faced are the deaths of my mother and Stephen Gately.

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

Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down.

The death of a beloved is an amputation.

Losses do that. One life-loss can infect the whole of a life. Like a rash that wears through our days, our sight becomes peppered with black voids. Now everywhere we look, we only see all that isn’t: holes, lack, deficiency.

There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.