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“The oak trees seemed as though they were playing instruments; here a gentle violin, over there two harps in harmony, flutes and other woodwinds joined the tree orchestra.”

Book:The Empress:

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“What seemed at first like an act of incandescent self-destruction turned out to be the onramp to a bleak treadmill, one that felt designed to eradicate my personality and identity. It didn’t end my self-recrimination and misery. Instead, it illustrated just how good I’d had it living on the street.”

Loss Prostitution Reflective Raw Devious Perils International Travel Rif Mountains Medellin South East Asian Jungles

Author:Edward Williams

“That’s the thing with breakups- you aren’t just mourning the person you loved but also the life you planned together. Lost on the wind.”

Loss Mourning Breakup Breakups

Book:The Wrong Daughter

Source: The Wrong Daughter

“So many gone and never found and no one ever charged. […] The girls outnumbered the boys fifty to one. They varied in appearance but were one and the same. Young. Mostly too young to realize they were birthmarked with targets that only boldened with time, invisible to begin with, taking shape though formative years and burning red hot through puberty and into their teens.”

Loss Teens Puberty Abduction

Author:Chris Whitaker

“I carried my legs all the way to the end of the planet where everything falls except the memory of you.”

Love Poetry Loss Cinema Creature Fishmen

Book:La película que nunca vimos

Source: La película que nunca vimos

“If he sent her on her way, her mission would have been a failure. He looked at her long legs. He shook her hand, holding it a second too long.”

Fighting Loss Sacrifice Blood Military Emotional Hatred Bullets Guns World War I Fiction

Book:Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller

Source: Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller

“Pletcher went out to Ethyl, who was still sitting in the weather, water droplets on her dense coat blinking in the hazy light like sea sparkle in the night off Bimini.”

Death Fighting Loss History Violence Sacrifice Blood Hatred World War I Guns

Book:Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller

Source: Strangers and Sojourners: A Big Percy Pletcher thriller

“Desiderium, n. an ardent desire for something lost.”

Loss

Book:When the World Tips Over

Source: When the World Tips Over

“Courage doesn’t erase fear — it gives us the strength to move forward in spite of it.”

Inspirational Life Lessons Growth Courage Resilience

Book:Fool for Thought: Reflections on Life, Identity, and Open-Mindedness

Source: Fool for Thought: Reflections on Life, Identity, and Open-Mindedness

“Save yourself!" says the soapbox preacher, and that's what the SYXTEM says too. You know what I say? Forget saving yourself. Forget saving anyone. Love your friends. Love your family. Love your enemies, too. And when they're gone? Love the dead.”

Loss Nihilism

Book:Riot Act

Source: Riot Act

“I realized quickly, no matter how tightly I hugged my mother’s sweaters hanging in the coat closet in the hallway, breathing deep into the neck to catch her lavender scent, it wasn’t enough. She was not here. Objects can never truly capture the whole essence of the person.”

Mother Loss Remembrance Missing Someone

Book:The Rack: Stories Inspired By Vintage Horror Paperbacks

Source: The Rack: Stories Inspired By Vintage Horror Paperbacks

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