Losing Things Quotes

“There is something about that burning of all those letters that gives me pause: why should everything be made clear and be brought into the light? Why keep things, archive your intimacies? Why not let thirty years of shared conversation go spiralling in ash up into the air of Tunbridge Wells? Just because you have it does not mean you have to pass it on. Losing things can something gain you a space in which to live.”
― Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

“I liked some things and hated some things, and there were some thing I didn't know I had until I lost them”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“When moving from one home to another watch out for losing dear (expensive) things. This is when people will steal from you.”
― Clifford Cohen

“I liked some things and hated some things, and there were things I didn't know I had until I lost them.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent