“As if sorrow is the true reality? Without ever putting his mind to it, he’s come to believe that loss is the standard trajectory.”— Ben Fountain Related Quotes “Every new event – everything I did for the rest of my life – would only separate us more and more: days she was n longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away.”— Donna Tartt “We’re all bits that the war didn’t take, Flinty thought, gazing at the stranger’s back. But those left behind had a right to know more about the beast who’d chewed their lives and spat the remnants out.”— Jackie French “More tears rushed from the depths of her tortured soul. … The losses piled up.”— Karen Kingsbury