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“Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.”

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“Do not fear to lose what needs to be lost.”

Book:The Invention of Wings

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“We hold on so tightly, because we’re terrified of loss. We hold on till our hands bleed. And in that self-shattering persistence, we fail to see the answer: Just let go.”

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“Warm summer sun, shine brightly here, Warm Southern wind, blow softly here, Green sod above, lie light, lie light, Good night, dear heart; good night, good night.”

Loss Daughter Death And Dying Eulogy

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“She was a stranger because something essential was shielded, released in tiny bursts until it became a flood---a flood of what I realized I did not know. Afterward, I would mourn her as if she'd died, because something had: someone we had created together.”

Loss Disillusionment Estrangement Facades

Book:In the Dream House

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“Ben, what’s important to you? What is it that’s really important to you?” Robin asked. “Isn’t that what ought to guide you?”

Book:Whiz Kid

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“I have loved and lost in so many different ways. And I have died endless deaths… So when I ask myself, the question today, who am I? My answer is…I do not know.”

Love Loss Hearbreak

Book:Progeny of Innocence

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“He wished he didn’t know what he had lost. Maybe then every day wouldn’t feel like this. As if he had once known how to fly, but the skies had shaken him loose and left him with nothing but the memory of wings.”

Book:The Gilded Wolves

Source: The Gilded Wolves

“Sjel, vær trofast til det siste! Seirens seir er alt å miste. Tapets alt din vinning skapte; - evig eies kun det tapte.”

Book:Brand

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“How easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.”

Book:City of Bones

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“In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.”

Book:The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Source: The Narrow Road to the Deep North