Loss Of Parent Quotes

“My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was still living, too.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!”
― Latoya Alston

“Like all motherless girls, Leni would become an emotional explorer, trying to uncover the lost part of her, the mother who carried and nurtured and loved her. Leni would become both mother and child; to her, mama would still grow and age. She would never be gone, not as long as Leni remembered her.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“My mother's footsteps
Were so quiet
I barely heard her leave”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“I had eight years with her to remember-she didn't all go away. A lot of her is still here. Perhaps all. I still don't know entirely which part of her is her, and which of her is me. Sometimes I'll see or hear something with a strange kind of resonance and can only assume it is a thing, a scent or sound or sight, similar or maybe even identical to one which once touched her deeply, and I will pause, pondering the meaning of this response.”
― Rick Bass, The Sky, The Stars, The Wilderness

“I think again of that thing no one tells you about birth, that as your body offers up your child to the outside world your very first job as a mother is to let go. I really never thought about the fact that that gift, if you're lucky, needs to be returned in kind.”
― Minnie Driver, Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays

“Bombs and blood. That was how the rebels had killed his mother.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes