“Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.”

“In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.”

“It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.”

“When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a child without consciousness of that eternal crown!”

“Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll.”

“Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.”

“Losses in life are never fun, but there is one loss no one can afford to experience, the loss of hope.”

“Every generation of Americans since has had to reenact the loss of our innocence. Smog over L. A. was the loss of our innocence. Vietnam was the loss of our innocence. Gettysburg was the loss of our innocence. Ingrid Bergman’s baby was the loss of our innocence. Oklahoma City was the loss of our innocence. The World Trade Center was the loss of our innocence. Other nations are cynical. America has preferred the child’s game of “discovering” evil—Europe’s or Asia’s, her grandfather’s, even her own.”

“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”

“God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real.”