Mourner for Hire Quotes

“There are some words we don't get to say before we run out of time”
― Caitlin Moss, Mourner for Hire

“You know time isn't replenishable. People often wish they can flip the hourglass over, but you can't.”
― Caitlin Moss, Mourner for Hire

“Not everything has to go according to plan. Not everything can be written on a list and checked off when you finish it.”
― Caitlin Moss, Mourner For Hire

“Really. Fuck the patriarchy”
― Caitlin Moss, Mourner For Hire

“Maybe it’s because I haven’t cried enough for the loss of my own mother and it’s easier to place the burden of crying on someone else’s loss.”
― Caitlin Moss, Mourner For Hire

“Death is the absence of someone. But really”
― Caitlin Moss, Mourner For Hire

“I am falling in love with someone that is a little fucking weird—” she rolls her eyes, and I rub her cheek with my thumb, gently convincing her to look at me. “But still the best woman I’ve ever known. So maybe I want that. The weird. The questionable. The cryptic. I want the parts of you that don’t make sense—the worst and the best. I want your gray skies, your lost memories, your haunted nights, and your bad days. Give me your worst—I’ll take it. And I’ll still think you are the very best this world has to offer.”
― Caitlin Moss, Mourner For Hire

“Regret can still bloom in impossibility, you know?”
― Caitlin Moss, Mourner For Hire

“Death is the absence of someone. But really, death is an unwelcome houseguest.”
― Caitlin Moss, Mourner For Hire

“There is a relentless part of me filled with relentless hope that I will remember my childhood. When I sit with that feeling, I realize a massive piece of my identity is lost in the forgetting, making me feel like a ship without an anchor, adrift in an ocean I don't even remember setting sail on.”
― Caitlin Moss, Mourner for Hire

“I'm not ready, either. But it's not up to us when we have to say goodbye.”
― Caitlin Moss, Mourner for Hire

“That's the problem with optimism-you believe everything will be fine, until it isn't. And by then, all you're left with is regret.”
― Caitlin Moss, Mourner for Hire