“ Her body accepted my brutal seed and took it to swell within, just as the patient earth accepts a falling fruit into its tender soil to cradle and nourish it to grow. Came a time, just springtime last… Roman Payne
“ History has shown us time and time again that you don't have to know someone to love them with all your heart. Shannon L. Alder
“ Queen Katherine, whose boys have all died, takes it patiently: that is to say, she suffers. Hilary Mantel
“ Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own bo… C.S. Lewis
“ My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. C.S. Lewis
“ For in grief nothing stays put. One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?But if a spiral, a… C.S. Lewis
“ A greater love was always with me. Guiding me and waiting for me to surrender myself so that the glory of grief could bring me back to joy, where it greeted me once again.” - Just Be Lindsa Gibson
“ Her mother’s quiet disapproval and withdrawal was a death in itself, and Franckline’s despair at it was transmitted, she was sure of it, to the child. She transgressed twice, first by making the child… Pamela Erens
“ I am not functioning very well. Living with the knowledge that the baby is dead is painful. I feel so far away from you, God. I can only try to believe that you are sustaining me and guiding me throug… Christine O'Keeffe Lafser
“ Some people say it is a shame. Others even imply that it would have been better if the baby had never been created. But the short time I had with my child is precious to me. It is painful to me, but I… Christine O'Keeffe Lafser
“ Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it? C.S. Lewis
“ If a mother is mourning not for what she has lost but for what her dead child has lost, it is a comfort to believe that the child has not lost the end for which it was created. And it is a comfort to… C.S. Lewis
