Lily King Quotes

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Lily King, born in 1963, is an accomplished American novelist. Her works are renowned for their profound character development and emotional expression, captivating readers worldwide.

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“I can tell he lost someone close somehow. You can feel that in people, an openness, or maybe it's an opening that you're talking into. With other people, people who haven't been through something like that, you feel the solid wall. Your words go scattershot off of it.”

Loss Grief Sadness Mourning Openness

Book:Writers & Lovers

Source: Writers & Lovers

“Did he know? Of course he didn't. But for so long now when someone asked how she was they loaded it with pity and braced themselves for her reply, as if she had the power to hurt them with the truth.”

Truth Pain Loss Grief Sadness Pity

Book:Five Tuesdays in Winter

Source: Five Tuesdays in Winter

“When I was visiting her a few years ago she hugged me and said, 'Tomorrow after you leave I will stand here at this window and remember that yesterday you were right here with me.' And now she's dead and I have that feeling all the time, no matter where I stand.”

Death Loss Grief Memory Grieving

Book:Writers & Lovers

Source: Writers & Lovers

Love Loss Grief Family Grief And Loss Grief Support

Book:Writers & Lovers

Source: Writers & Lovers

“I love these geese. They make my chest tight and full and help me believe that things will be all right again, that I will pass through this time as I have passed through other times, that the vast and threatening blank ahead of me is a mere specter, that life is lighter and more playful than I’m giving it credit for. But right on the heels of that feeling, that suspicion that all is not yet lost, comes the urge to tell my mother, tell her that I am okay today, that I have felt something close to happiness, that I might still be capable of feeling happy. She will want to know that. But I can't tell her. That's the wall I always slam into on a good morning like this. My mother will be worrying about me, and I can't tell her that I'm okay. The geese don't care that I'm crying again. They're used to it.”

Happiness Death Hope Loss Grief Optimism Mourning Mothers Geese Death Of A Mother

Book:Writers & Lovers

Source: Writers & Lovers

“The air between us crackles, as it does when you speak of your beloved dead. But it’s hard to know what to say next.”

Death Loss Grief Talking Conversation Speech Mourning

Book:Writers & Lovers

Source: Writers & Lovers

“Adults hid their pain, their fears, their failure, but adolescents hid their happiness, as if to reveal it would risk its loss.”

Happiness Loss Adults Teens Adolescents

Book:Five Tuesdays in Winter

Source: Five Tuesdays in Winter

About the Author

Born: 1963
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 73

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