Lurlene McDaniel Quotes

When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you’re ruined.

If you live to be 1000 years old, I hope I live to be 1000 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.

No one teaches you how to do this. How do you let go of someone who you love so much?

I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.

She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a phantom limb. Gone but still there. And like a true phantom limb, the preponderance of feelings associated with him were painful.

That's the one thing you wake up with every day: How long have I got left? And that's the saddest thing in the world, because you have this absolute realization that everything you love you're going to have to let go of and give up. I look at my daughter and I think, There's going to be a point where I'm not going to be around for her. Even the thought of that breaks my heart.

Lucas," I repeated. "I know you can hear me. The guy I love is still in there. Come back to me." Once again longed for the release of tears. "Death couldn't keep me from you. And it can't keep you from me, not if you don't let it.

You want to know, but are afraid to ask, whether or not I found someone. If there could be anyone to fill that hole in my heart after I lost him. I did. "Life is futile," says my new therapist, Michaela, "and no one gets out of it alive. There is only love.

Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.

Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.

You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going

You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.

I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.

If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?

eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

I think that one of the reasons why people look towards the end of humanity is that people are afraid to die alone. If you die alone, the people you love will miss you, or if they die, you miss them - the sorrow is inevitable. When you truly love someone, the thought of losing them forever is horrible.

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.