Christmas Loss Quotes

#1. With some stories, you really can't rush things. And it's often best just to sit back and enjoy the journey for what it is.

Melissa Hill

#2. And then she realized that after that Christmas party, she didn't really lose anything, except respect for everyone.

Crystal Woods

#3. The creek was hers now and yet she felt nothing. It had been the longest walk of her life for no one was at the end waiting for her. She slept through winter. Missed Christmas and awoke to a New Year. She felt so lost. Until the first bluebells and ramsons colored the green-brown floor of her world.

Sarah Winman

#4. Love and loss come in equal measure.

Kate Lord Brown

#5. There are few things emptier than the space where a Christmas tree used to be.

Kate Lord Brown

#6. It began with the Christmas tree lights. They were candy-bright, mouth-size. She wanted to feel the lightness of them on her tongue, the spark on her tastebuds. Without him life was so dark, and all the holiday debris only made it worse. She promised herself she wouldn't bite down.

Kirsty Logan

#7. Ever since the Christmas of '53, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving
Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.

John Irving

#8. If I hired one of the stock boys to chase me around the store with a licorice whip, I'd be thin by Christmas.

Jennette Fulda

#9. From the edge of the forest where the mountains begin, a pack of sleeping wolves, huddled together in the cold, were woken. Travelling on the crystal air was a sound to fear in the night - the sound of parents calling out in anguish and loss.
A sound that would even chill the souls of beasts.

Sebastian Gregory