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“Do we leave the dead behind or do we take them with us? I think we take them with us. They accompany us. They remain with us, if in another form. We have to learn to live with them and their deaths.”

Book:The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

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“Your mother contained a good spirit. A loving spirit. A spirit that will not cease to exist. Eva looked at him, her brows furrowed. Rovender placed his arm around Eva's shoulders. "You see, she lives within you now, in all of the lessons that she taught you. Lessons you will never forget. Lessons you will always carry with you... and will one day pass on.”

Death Spirit Death Of A Loved One Passing Away Rovender Kitt Eva Nine

Book:The Search for WondLa

Source: The Search for WondLa

“I think about all the people I wish could die instead of you.”

Pain Death Wish Regret Confession Death Of A Loved One

Book:Confess

Source: Confess

“But surely Uncle Akbar could not be dead as they were dead? There must be something indestructible — something that remained of men who had walked and talked with one and told one stories, men whom one had loved and looked up to. But where had it gone? It was all very puzzling, and he did not understand.”

Death Death Of A Loved One Incomprehensible

Book:The Far Pavilions

Source: The Far Pavilions

“When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the thorns held me tight. I've learned to appreciate thorns since. The thorns taught me the game. They let me understand what all those grim and serious men who've fought the Hundred War have yet to learn. You can only win the game when you understand that it IS a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him loose them all.”

War Life Lessons Murder Game

Book:Prince of Thorns

Source: Prince of Thorns

“No one is truly lost when they remain in the hearts and minds of those wwho love them”

Death Of A Loved One

Book:Children of the Storm

Source: Children of the Storm

“Dead mothers are rather fashionable these days. They lend such an attractive air of tragedy.”

Trends Mothers Death Of A Loved One Orphans

Book:Hook's Revenge

Source: Hook's Revenge

“It was only the thought that Deets was still knowing him, somehow, that kept him from feeling totally alone.”

Death Of A Loved One

Book:Lonesome Dove

Source: Lonesome Dove

“Two days after your death, in a dream you text me many times. I read the first of them. ME! And so are the living comforted.”

Mourning Death Of A Loved One

Author:Marion Coutts

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