Suzanne Collins Quotes

My mom died when I was 11 years old.

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

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all.

My dad passed away when I was 10.

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

I miss my mother very, very much.

My mom died when I was 8.

Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?

I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.

Well, my mother, I knew until I was 13. She died when I was 13.

It was the saddest day of my life.

Grief is a world you walk through skinned, unshelled.

I lost my mom to cancer when I was a kid.

My mother passed. She passed when I was 10 or 11.

One moment I can be happy and laughing, but then it comes over me. It's my mom.

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.

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

I was an only child growing up, and my father passed away when I was twelve, so for most of my life, it was just me and my momma. We were really, really close. Learning to live in the world without her has been incredibly hard. At first, it didn't make any sense - how to do it, to live without her - but you slowly get somewhat used to it.

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

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

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.