Sue Grafton Quotes

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

When it was all over, and I was left alone in my office, I put my face in my hands and wept. I could do nothing less.

Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.

The light has gone out of my life.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Do not weep for me.

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

Losing my mum. That was a punch-me moment.

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

I've never lost a grown-up child, but I have known loss.

In Washington, we had a grieving President Wilson, very, very much a lonely, grieving man. He had lost his wife of many years in August 1914 at about the same time the war broke out in Europe.

It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered.

Serious loss brings you into one of the world's silent fraternities.

Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience.