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“Ben, he is what he is.” Leah shook her head. “No, I’m not worried about you changing him. What worries me is that he will change you.”

Book:Whiz Kid

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“The serpent eating itself, tail-first. We live to repeat the same mistakes, to push away the ones we love, to move on when we want to stay, to wait in silence when we should speak. In the life we have chosen to lead, loss is the only constant. Loss, that eats up everything – like the snake, even itself.”

Life Choices Loss

Book:The Strawberry Thief

Source: The Strawberry Thief

“I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself.”

Loss Survival Slavery Slave Trade

Book:The Book of Negroes

Source: The Book of Negroes

“That's who is waiting for me: an invisible man defined by a dotted line: the shape of an absence in your place at the table, sitting across from me, eating toast and eggs as usual or walking ahead up the drive, a rustling of the fallen leaves, a slight thickening of the air. It's you in the future, we both know that. You'll be here but not here, a muscle memory, like hanging a hat on a hook that's not there any longer.”

Loss Invisible

Book:Dearly

Source: Dearly

“Every game has rules. Obey the rules, win the game; disobey the rule, lose it! The game of life has loser and winners. Play fairly and win!”

Play Loss Player Food For Thought Israelmore Ayivor Win Rules Game Lose Winners Fair Play Obey Life Is A Game Losers Players Rules For Life Win The Game Obey The Rules

Book:The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Looking at them all, Neil was as sad as he was proud.”

Loss

Book:The King's Men

Source: The King's Men

“The reason for leaving sometimes is to return. Simply to return.”

Love Loss Leaving

Author:Yrsa Daley-Ward

“I took it because, for the moment, I was the best.” (by David S. Burcat)”

Life Lessons

Book:Whiz Kid

Source: Whiz Kid

“I lost someone very close to me and afterward I believed I could have saved him had I been a better friend to him. But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.”

Loss

Book:What is the What

Source: What is the What

“The last time she had seen him in the flesh, all the vital force of his life stripped away, his sharpened face had confronted her with such a fearful fixed finality of sightless indifference that she had been frozen in mortal terror, engulfed by abysmal despair. After all the years of unfailing support, his huge, inhuman, deaf, blind inaccessibility was horrifying. He had not kept his promise. He had abandoned her, left her to suffer alone.”

Loss Abandonment

Book:Julia and the Bazooka and Other Stories

Source: Julia and the Bazooka and Other Stories

“You can't lose someone who was never there in the first place.”

Love Loss

Book:Trouble

Source: Trouble

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