Malachi Kirby Quotes

I had a real bad attitude after my dad passed of liver cancer. I was 9, and we were really close.

When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

My dad passed away when I was 10.

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

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

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.

Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.

When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.

In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

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.

I've lost lots of men in my life, besides my mother, which is a whole different loss.

Losing your parent is unlike anything.

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.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

I was so angry at God for taking my father from me that I marched up to my mother before the funeral and told her I was going to quit nursing school. I just wanted to stop living.

I was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn't expect it to escalate so rapidly. In my mind, it was like, 'He'll pull through.' When he didn't, I didn't understand. I was 21, and my best friend had died.

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

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

Losing a parent is always a terrible thing for anybody. It's no more or no less for me.

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

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

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