Luanne Rice Quotes

I think you grieve different elements, you grieve your wife who's gone, you grieve the fact she had cancer and you had to watch her die, you grieve the fact the life you built isn't going to be the same as the one going forward. All these different elements hit you at different times.

Of course when you lose your parent, it's like one chapter in your book of life ends. It's difficult but it's a part of life and you have to accept it.

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

When my mother passed away I was 20.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

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

In 1991, my father passed away and I went on a spiritual quest. It was a light one, not too terribly deep because I'm not terribly deep, and neither was my father.

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.

My father's death was the most terrible thing that happened to me in my life.

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

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

I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.

I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, and I've had to live that as though it's real. And it can take a really big emotional toll on someone.

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.

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.

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

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

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

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.

Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.

My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymore. Before, he was fighting and loving life.