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“How could he have abandoned—no, shoved away the most important person in the world to him? The one person in the world to whom he, in turn, was also most important? God, he was a monster.”

Book:Homecoming

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“The graces are restless today. They pweet and muss, shuddering their wings so that the feathers stick out at defensive angles. I feel that restlessness too. When the sea is fractious like this – when it chutters and schwaks against the moorings, when it won't talk but only mumbles – it's difficult to think.”

Grief Sea Ocean Remorse

Book:The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales

Source: The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales

“Memory in the mind of man can adapt to the worst conditions. I'll give you an example, an analogy of sorts: Each night I sop rags with beer and lay them out in careful strips. With rags soaked in beer I tease cockroaches from a crack in the baseboard. By morning they're good and drunk and I pop them into a baggy, then take them outside and throw the little buggers away.”

Writing Memory Remorse Cockroaches Thurber

Book:Nothing But Trouble

Source: Nothing But Trouble

“And sometimes you fall in love that way, when you’re drowning in a world of pain. It’s not a happy love. It’s just whoever manages not to hurt you all the time. You think they must be the best the world has to offer. The little window of time you aren’t in pain can seem like happiness.”

Love Pain Happiness Relationships Settling Anguish

Book:Everything Sad Is Untrue

Source: Everything Sad Is Untrue

“He was the person all of us should be, but most of us aren't. And if I could have taken his place to buy him a little more time in the world, I'd have done it. I'm sorry I couldn't.”

Death Remorse Something Like Normal

Book:Something like Normal

Source: Something like Normal

“I looked in vain for LaRoue, my cruelty towards her now in me like a splinter, where it would sit for years in my helpless memory, the skin growing around; what else can memory do? It can do nothing: It pretends to eat the shrapnel of your acts, yet it cannot swallow or chew.”

Remorse 58

Author:Lorrie Moore

“Every morning I wake up, I feel guilty; every breath of borrowed time is heavy in my chest."-Lo-The Wild Hunt”

Death Guilt Remorse The Wild Hunt

Author:Ashley Jeffery

“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.”

Mourning Inadequacy Of Words

Book:My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

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