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"Who wants to know that the person you love and need the most can just vanish forever?"

—Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

"How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour. There are families all over the world staring at beds that are no longer slept in, shoes that are no longer worn. Families that no longer have to buy a particular cereal, a kind of shampoo. There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside their hearts are ripping to shreds. For years. For their whole lives. I don’t believe time heals. I don’t want it to. If I heal, doesn’t that mean I’ve accepted the world without her?"

—Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere

"Most people think the scariest thing is knowing that you’re going to die. It’s not. It’s knowing you might have to watch every single person you’ve ever loved—or even liked—waste away while you just stand there."

—Megan Crewe, The Way We Fall

"Love doesn’t go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives."

—Sarah Strohmeyer, Kindred Spirits

"I wondered what it would be like to die. Was it like going to sleep or like waking up? Was there no more time? Or did time go on forever?"

—Grace McCleen, The Land of Decoration

"Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time."

—Susan Cheever

"When he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again."

—Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

"Everyone knows they’re going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently."

—Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie