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“Maybe home for some is always the one they lost.”

Book:All the Seas of the World

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All the Seas of the World

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Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay is a renowned Canadian fantasy author, born on November 7, 1954. His works are celebrated for their rich imagination and profound cultural depth, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

“O I never thought that joys would run away from boys, Or that boys would change their minds and forsake such summer joys; But alack I never dreamed that the world had other toys To petrify first feelings like the fable into stone, Till I found the pleasure past and a winter come at last, Then the fields were sudden bare and the sky got overcast And boyhood’s pleasing haunt like a blossom in the blast Was shrivelled to a withered weed and trampled down and done, Till vanished was the morning spring and set the summer sun And winter fought her battle strife and won.”

Past Poetry Nature Loss Seasons Ageing

Book:Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

Source: Poems Chiefly from Manuscript

“She didn't know the songs," I recall being told that a friend of a friend had said after an attempt to repeat the experience.”

Relationships Loss Grief

Book:The Year of Magical Thinking

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

“don't always insure yourself against failure, otherwise you won't fully commit”

Loss Risk Dedication Grit Skin In The Game

Author:Hugh Jackman

“Les livres sont des fantômes. Les lettres ne valent guère mieux, qui se construisent à même l'absence de ceux qu'on aime. Même les plus belles, les plus tendres, les plus émouvantes ne cessent de chuchoter : je ne suis pas là.”

Death Loss Grief Books Ghosts Mort Livres Deuil Fantômes

Book:Les ombres blanches

Source: Les ombres blanches

“Tell me something about her," he whispers. "Something good." "I didn't know anything." My voice cracks, and I clear my throat. "I knew her for weeks? Months? And I never even asked her anything worthwhile about her family or what it was like when she was young or- or what she wanted or what she hoped for. Because I thought we had more time.”

Loss Laia Of Serra A Torch Against The Night Kennan

Book:A Torch Against the Night

Source: A Torch Against the Night

“I know it hurts. Of all people, I know. But pain is how you know you loved her.”

Loss Laia Of Serra A Torch Against The Night

Book:A Torch Against the Night

Source: A Torch Against the Night

“but where are you going, Mamaw? I don't understand." "Home, sweetie," my mamaw said. "I'm going home.”

Loss

Book:A Thousand Boy Kisses

Source: A Thousand Boy Kisses

“I'm almost ashamed to burden my friends with news of another dead relative, as if I were some storehouse of dead people - Send Me Some Black Clothes”

Death Loss Bereavement

Book:When the Wanderers Come Home

Source: When the Wanderers Come Home

“He’s become my best friend the way the others did: bit by bit, sand passing through an hourglass so slowly, it’s impossible to pin down the moment it happens. When suddenly more of my heart belongs to him than doesn’t, and I know I’ll never get a single grain back. He’s a golden boy. I’m a girl whose life has been drawn in shades of gray. I try not to love him. I really try.”

Love Life Lessons Relationships Friendship Happy

Book:Happy Place

Source: Happy Place

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