Best Devastating Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Book:Origin

Source: Origin

“The speed of light,' he explained. 'More specifically, how many metres per second light travels. I had it made after Aura was... gone. After you left for the west coast. I wanted something tangible I could hold on to. To remember. That I wasn't alone. I want you to take it. so that you remember. While you're away. You're never alone.' Jack leaned forward and ran a fingertip over the number sequence. 'The light in the stars that you'll look up and see in Denmark is travelling from the past. Some of that light started its journey when she was_' He looked to the dimming sky. Waited out the emotion. 'I want you to remember that some of the starlight you'll see every night in Denmark started its journey when Aura was still with us.' He finished. Esther clutched the keyring in her palm.”

Love Beautiful Stars Loss Grief Devastating

Book:The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

Source: The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

“There was this constant urge in me to tear my insides apart, I didn't know why. By the time I made my mind that it was impossible for me to do, there alighted the fear, haunting me with the words that rang constantly in my head, "You're not brave enough". I didn't feel devastated, I felt the urge to be devastated.”

Life Fear Grief Impossible Sad Lonely Balls Bravery Brave Alone Guts Melancholy Coward Nerves Suicidal Haunting Devastated Tear Morose Timid Devastating Not Brave Enough

Author:Sanhita Baruah

“And then Letty broke the world.”

Sad Robin Devastating Ramy Letty

Author:RF Kuang

“It had seemed then that her daughter's absence had flooded Eleonor, flooded them both, and that with their words they were trying to bail themselves out. But their words were eggcups, and what they were describing was an ocean of absence too vast to be contained in such modest vessels.”

Sad Devastating

Book:Once Upon a River

Source: Once Upon a River

“wondering and wandering i have learned is better in fiction.”

Grief Devastating

Book:Lazarus Rises: Amongst other things

Source: Lazarus Rises: Amongst other things

“If I am selfish I might have achieved great things, but achieving great things out of my selfishness is one of the most devastating ways I can think of to fail.”

Failure Achievement Greed Selfish Selfishness Fail Self Centered Devastating

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“COVID-19 is devastating Hawaii’s economy.”

Economy Coronavirus Covid 19 Pandemic Big Island Hawaiian Remote Devastating Hawaii S

Author:Steven Magee

“Diana can read power levels,” Astrid said. “Did she ever…” Sam nodded. “She said the baby is a three bar. As a fetus. Who knows what it will be when it’s born. Or as it grows. Diana’s only, like, four or five months along. I should know exactly, but I forget. When she would talk about it I would kind of, you know.” He made a shivering move, like it all gave him the creeps. Astrid shook her head in disbelief. “Really. That’s the part of all this that makes you squirm: pregnancy.” “She made me touch her, you know, stomach. And she talked about her, um, her things.” He pointed at his chest and whispered, “Nipples.” “Yeah,” Astrid said dryly. “I could see where that would be devastating.”

Body Baby Uncomfortable Sam Temple Astrid Ellison Devastating Diana Ladris Squirm

Book:Fear

Source: Fear

“My volcano of compress anger was about to erupt in school, and it would take more than five years for my molten lava to be brought under control, which was through the loss of my sight. However, shouldn’t there be a way of detecting and reaching out to kids like me before there is a massive problem? Why wait until there is a devastating eruption before we intervene?”

Anger Blindness Intervention Eruption Volcano Devastating Detecting At Risk Students School Fights Compress Anger Massive Problems Molten Lava

Book:The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

Source: The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“Lev was a man who appreciated the finer things in life. To him, Maeve was one of them.”

Fighting Violence Survival Secrets Investigation Detective Private Investigator Threats Mystery Series Devastating

Book:Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

Source: Bangtails, Grifters, and a Liar's Kiss

“You never get possessed forever.. However painful and devastating the state/period is, you will get back to normal someday..”

Lessons Painful Possessed Devastating Possesion Devasting Wise Advise

Author:honeya

“All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception for those we wish to expose. We hide behind that which brings us comfort from pain and sadness or use it to repel a truth too devastating to accept.”

Love Truth Pain Lost Fear Sadness Revenge Deception Mask Artifice Revenge Tv Series Devastating

Author:Emily Thorne

“The biggest risk I see to Hawaiian Electric are its current and past workers testifying against them regarding their power line maintenance before the devastating Lahaina fire.”

Fire Lahaina Current Devastating I See Hawaiian Electric Past Workers Power Line Maintenance Testifying Against Them The Biggest Risk

Author:Steven Magee

“If I get up just one less time than the number of times I’ve been knocked down, I have done one of the most devastating things possible; I have halted my life at that very spot.”

Life Journey Giving Up Surrender Abandon Fail Exhaustion Discouragement Knocked Down Give Up Stopped Devastating Surrendered Ceased Halted

Book:An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons

Source: An Autumn's Journey: Deep Growth in the Grief and Loss of Life's Seasons