Home / Quotes / Quote by Jennifer Castle

Quote by Jennifer Castle

“Holding the knife with the blade against my palm, it became so clear how my life would only contain shadows now. Shadows of things gone; not just the people themselves but everything connected to them. Was this my future? Every moment, every tiny thing I saw and did and touched, weighted by loss. Every space in this house and my town and the world in general, empty in a way that could never be filled.”

Quote by Jennifer Castle

Book:The Beginning of After

Work

The Beginning of After

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Jennifer Castle

Browse famous quotes and profile details for Jennifer Castle. more

You May Also Like

“Thoughts, pictures of him would come to me just a second after waking, shocking me from the forgetfulness of sleep, striking blows that were almost physical. And even in sleep I was not completely free. So often sleep brought dreams of him.”

Loss Grief Grieving Fathers And Sons

Book:The Godsend

Source: The Godsend

“I stood there feeling the lightness of my bones, knowing now this was not only lack of sleep that had transformed my bones into feathers, but my body's recognition that soon I would be leaving this place I had inhabited for one year, this place made entirely of grief.”

Grief Bones Lightness

Book:The Shape of Water

Source: The Shape of Water

“Mrs. Sussex said Byron’s loss would grow more bearable. But here was the nub: he didn’t want to lose his loss. Loss was all he had left of his mother. If time healed the gap, it would be as if she’d never been there.”

Grief Grief And Loss

Book:Perfect

Source: Perfect

“When in desperate search for a better door, ask God to open that door.”

Life Lessons Quotes Gift Gugu Mona Quotes Gift Gugu Mona Philosophy Gift Gugu Mona Library Gift Gugu Mona Book Club Wisdom Nuggets Gift Gugu Mona Musings Pursuing The Right Doors

Book:Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies

Source: Beyond the Closed Door: Unique Keys to Unlock Destinies

“In our springtime there is no better, there is no worse. Blossoming branches burgeon as the must. Some are long, some are short.' Stay upright. Stay with life.”

Life Grief Solace

Book:Three Shadows

Source: Three Shadows

“There are all sorts of losses people suffer- from the small to the large. You can lose your car keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.”

Loss Grief Jodi Picoult The Storyteller

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“as if all the years haven't dulled that moment. She's staring at a spot of air in front of it, and I know, in that spot of air, is her son.”

Book:Words in Deep Blue

Source: Words in Deep Blue

“Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.”

Love Grief Sonnet

Book:Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: plus Sonnets from the Porte-Cochere by S. H. Bass

Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: plus Sonnets from the Porte-Cochere by S. H. Bass

“It's funny how sometimes you don't see the obvious things coming. You think you know what life has in store for you. You think you're prepared. You think you can handle it. And then-boom, like a thunderclap-something comes at you out of nowhere and catches you off guard.”

Book:The Last Time We Say Goodbye

Source: The Last Time We Say Goodbye

“I don't reproach the spring for starting up again. I can't blame it for doing what it must year after year. I know that my grief will not stop the green.”

Loss Grief Sorrow Spring Green Mourning Springtime Greenness

Book:View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems

Source: View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems