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“To know you'll never see your father again is to realize one of life's greatest pains.”

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Author:Saim .A. Cheeda

“It's impossible to explain this feeling. No words to express the pain of losing the one person who loved you most in the world. No way to describe the devastation in knowing no one will ever love you that way again. If you've never lost a parent, you won't understand. But Jax does. Because Jax has. I stay strong in the face of everyone else, but for him, I can break. And I do. Over and over, I break.”

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Book:Beneath the Stars

Source: Beneath the Stars

“No matter how old you are, as long as a parent is alive, you are still a child. It is only after both die that you cease being a child. And then, all of a sudden, not only are you no longer a child, you are also next in line.”

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Book:A Dark Time in America

Source: A Dark Time in America

“The measurement of mourning: eighteen months for mourning a father, a mother.”

Mourning Losing A Parent

Book:Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979

Source: Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979

“Mother's gone so who can I cry to about you? There’s no one else alive. I have no one to tell me how I was as a child. Was I really one?”

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Book:The Goodbye Song

Source: The Goodbye Song

“Losing the buffer zone of my parents meant I was next. I had a chance to craft a lighter finale for my future senior years. I didn’t want the final chapters of my life to be about stuff, and I didn’t want to abandon the responsibility of dealing with it myself.”

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Book:Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.

Source: Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.

“Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to come you're picking up the pieces -- down to the last glassy splinter.”

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Book:Saul Bellow: Letters

Source: Saul Bellow: Letters

“Losing a parent over eight years is a very dark journey. I spent the first four years feeling bad and angry and sorry for myself.”

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Author:Lauren Miller

“Frankenweenie is also about mortality, but at a very different stage. It's losing a parent versus losing a dog. I don't run away from the tears of that, which I think is what makes it feel universal.”

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Author:John August

“It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.”

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Author:Kate Beckinsale

“Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.”

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Author:Peter Ustinov

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

“The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They mothered each other.”

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Author:Louise Penny

“I was eight years old when my father was murdered. It is almost impossible to describe the pain of losing a parent to a senseless murder ... But even as a child, one thing was clear to me: I didn't want the killer, in turn, to be killed. I remember lying in bed and praying, Please, God. Please don't take his life, too. I saw nothing that could be accomplished in the loss of one life being answered with the loss of another.”

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Author:Kerry Kennedy