Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

So how can you lose what you've never owned?

Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.

It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

At some level it's still hard for me to admit that my father died. I can talk about it and around it, but those two words. 'He died.' What can that possibly mean? That I won't get to hear his voice again?

You can’t keep her.” I know that. But I’m not ready to give her up just yet.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

But as he reached the ground and sprinted towards the dais, Lupin grabbed Harry around the chest, holding him back. There's nothing you can do, Harry -' Get him, save him, he's only just gone through!' - it's too late, Harry.' We can still reach him -' Harry struggled hard and viciously, but Lupin would not let go... There's nothing you can do, Harry...nothing...he's gone.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday. Heart feels better, then. But the words of head do not remain long in the ears of heart. Heart is so new to this. I want them back, says heart. Head is all heart has. Help, head. Help heart.

The thoughts of letting go of everything I love overwhelms like a tsunami of sorrow.

The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.

Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your heart they only die a little at a time, don't they? Like a plant when you go away on a trip and forget to ask a neighbor to poke in once in awhile with the old watering-can, and its so sad—

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.

You go through all the emotions when you're told to move on.

There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.

Never love something so much that you can't let go of it.

Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.

So we're in this process of letting go of our own attachments to our physical forms and to the people we love, and... basically everything. Life is like this one big process of letting go.

You learn to accept losing someone, but you never get over it.

I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

Hold on to the love, not the loss.

Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.