Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.

The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.

He wondered what his heart would look like if he could pluck it from his chest and inspect it.

When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention).

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss.

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

When nothing becomes the vocalThen nothing becomes the focalAnd nothing’s becoming at all

Blessed are the organized, for they will gain everything that they’ll never lose. 


everything that is scatteredcomes together in wordseverything that is lostcomes back in poetry.

The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.

..there are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Eli was right. The measure of success isn't what you gain. It's what you pay to get it.

No more running, no more half living, starving or fear. You have it better than me now, I think.

I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.