Loss Sentences, Vol. 6

(Sad sentences from various sources. Adjust phrasing where needed)

"Don't go chasing the dead, or else the dead will go chase after you."

"Take your time. When you're ready to talk, we'll talk."

"There's no such thing as getting used to what you experienced."

"We should go on a date!"

"How long has it been since you lost her?"

"When you lose someone you love, it's a line through your life. Everything's before or it's after. They're different worlds."

"You can love a memory all you want, but it can't love you back."

"My whole life is just a long series of losing things I love."

"Loss. It's a terrible thing, isn't it?"

"Love doesn't end with death. It just changes shape."

"It's strange having nightmares. I never used to."

"I used to be afraid of losing my memory. What I wouldn't give to forget a thing or two now."

"I went back to work too soon. I thought it would help me, but now I'm not too sure."

"When you loved someone as much as I loved him, even when they're gone, you keep waiting for them to come in through the door."

"I know how much it hurts. I've been right where you are."

"I wish I could tell you that the images will soon fade. The emotions, at least, will become less raw."

"Grief is like a minefield. You're fine, you're walking along... Click! You're in pieces."

"I don't laugh as easily as I used to."

"They talk about the five stages of grief. I think that's a myth. I think there are dozens."

"I drank because it hurt too much. I stopped because it's meant to."

"What happens now? Where do we go from here?"

"Everyone I know is dead. I have no home. No family."

"You've all abandoned me."

"I can't lose you. Not again."

"Everything that I worked for - everything that I thought I was - I'm going to lose."

"You know we're going to have to talk about it sooner or later?"

"He was everything to me."

"I'm not going to ask you if you're okay because I know you can't be."

"The dead at least have the luxury of being done with what they lost."

Loss Sentences, Vol. 5

(Sad sentences from various sources. Adjust phrasing where needed)

"You've got to forget me. Let the past die."

"I feel like I'm hanging on by a thread here. I can't find any more bodies. I just can't."

"She's dead. The only important question now is how do you want to remember her?"

"There aren't any happy endings nowadays."

"It isn't like it used to be, but it'll do."

"Trust me, I know what it's like to lose someone. To feel like life is playing a cosmic trick on you."

"How do you live like this?"

"Believe me, one day, this pain will all be a memory."

"You don't have to be afraid that I'll break into pieces!"

"Do you know what it's like to wake up and think, just for a moment, that everything is as it was?"

"I've never seen much good come from looking to the past."

"She was the last link to who I was. I must find out who I am yet going to be."

"We all carry grief. It's rarely fatal."

"I wish you had the luxury of grief, but you don't."

"I've seen a lot of death, a lot of pain, a lot of suffering - but I've also seen a lot of life, a lot of beauty, a lot of wonder."

"Are you feeling okay? I've never seen you sleep for so long."

"Whatever punishment you think I deserve, I swear I have already endured it."

"Why are you talking in the past tense?"

"I understand. I know what it is to grieve."

"It's hard to believe that I'm now the last surviving member of my family."

"Even the most painful memories can become familiar. A refuge, if you'd like."

"What if I don't want to remember?"

"If you could, would you bring him back to life?"

"I know you want to help me, but I don't think you can this time."

"One doesn't lose a brother and remain emotionless."

"Sacrifice is hard, but you're no stranger to it."

"This place just isn't the same anymore."

"You don't get over it. You just get used to the crack in your heart."

"I don't like funerals. I never know what I'm supposed to say."

"Memories, like photographs, have a way of fading over time."

"You don't have to live in the past. Just let it go."

"Your eyes! What's happened to your eyes?"

"Not every story gets a happy ending."

"We've all got to move on."

"Mostly, it's loss that teaches us about the worth of things."

"Everything that's ever lived has to die."

"Grief can drive people to extraordinary lengths."

"You reach a point where the only thing you can do is just keep moving forward. That's all there is."

"There are things for all of us that not even all the time in the world would be able to erase."

"It's funny; I should feel melancholy, but mostly what I feel is liberated."

"The past's never just the past."

Loss Sentences, Vol. 4

(Sentences from various sources for muses that have lost something or someone. Adjust phrasing where needed)

"I was in love once."

"You're the first person that I've talked to about any of this."

"You're my only remaining link to the world."

"It's not really letting go of the past that sticks with you. It's coming to terms with letting go of the future that'll never be."

"Guilt does a lot of damage."

"The trick is not to think about it."

"You can't hide out here forever, you know. You have to go home sometime."

"We all have our ghosts."

"It was my fault he got shot!"

"I wish people would stop asking me how I'm feeling."

"Everything has changed, including me."

"Doing something rash isn't going to bring him back."

"We all come out of this a lot less human than we went in."

"Is there really ever such a thing as an accident?"

"Life never turns out the way you think it will."

"You said I could be whole, but how can that happen now?"

"Does it really look like I survived?"

"Sometimes there are scars that cannot be seen."

"I thought we were going to grow old together..."

"I came as soon as I saw the morning paper. I thought you might need a friend."

"I always understood, you know, and I have forgiven you. You just need to forgive yourself."

"I loved him until I figured out that it hurts a lot less to just not care."

"I miss her too, you know."

"You act like everybody's given up on you, but you've just given up on yourself."

"I know only that we cannot hide from our ghosts. Whether they are real or not, we must make our peace with them."

"As bad as this is, this hurt can make you a better person. That's what pain does. It shows you what's on the inside."

"I haven't cried yet. Isn't that weird?"

"When you love someone, it hurts all the more when you lose them."

"It's better to feel something than nothing."

"We all make mistakes, and we all pay a price."

"I know you have trouble losing people."

"I'm not a good man. Not anymore."

Loss Sentences, Vol. 3

(Sentences from various sources for muses that have lost something or someone. Adjust phrasing where needed)

"How are you coping?"

"I don't know who I am anymore."

"Sometimes, I think there's something missing."

"We make the bad things that happen to us our fault. It's a way to imagine we have some control, which we don't."

"Don't you give up. Don't you dare."

"I'm scared there's no Heaven."

"Love sometimes expresses itself in sacrifice."

"I know I should be sad, and I am. Part of me is."

"I've been where you are. I know what you're going through."

"I doubt that any one of us is a stranger to grief."

"Her absence touches me in ways I could not predict."

"Say something reassuring?"

"You were right. It's time to move on."

"Talking doesn't cure anything."

"I think you have a bit of a god complex going on."

"For the first time in my life, I was happy."

"You know what? I'm not talking about this right now."

"I look you in the eye, and you don't seem so stone-cold to me. You just seem lost - maybe a little sad."

"They say there are some things better not remembered."

"We've all been hurt, some more than others."

"Life and death is seldom logical."

"We don't have to talk about it if you don't want to. We can just sit here in silence."

"At a time like this, curiously, you begin to think of the things you regret or the things you might miss."

"Have you ever experienced absolute loss?"

"I'm going to need a moment to process this."

"I wake up sometimes and I think to myself 'how the hell am I still alive'."

"Things don't always work out the way you want."

"I know what it's like to be alone."

"A piece of advice: never get too attached. It makes it easier to say goodbye."

Loss Sentences, Vol. 2

(Sentences from various sources for muses that have lost something or someone. Adjust phrasing where needed)

"I know what it's like to be abandoned - how you think you're worthless and unlovable, and your heart hardens to the person who did it to you."

"You blame yourself for what happened to him, don't you?"

"Sometimes, bad things just happen."

"I'm not going to give up. I can't give up."

"Is that supposed to make me feel better?"

"You know, some mistakes are quite worth making twice."

"You know, whatever you're feeling, you can't blame yourself."

"I'm so scared that I've just got you back and now I'm going to lose you again."

"I want my old life back..."

"Time had a way of shedding light on injustices."

"New beginnings only lead to painful ends."

"If I could take the slightest bit of your pain away, I would."

"Everything has an end. Everything passes away."

"I can never get back what they took from me."

"You spend so much effort shutting down your feelings that you forget how to start them up again."

"They don't have words for how I feel."

"You know, there's some wounds that are just too painful ever to be reopened."

"Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never have had it?"

"You can't hurt a man when he's got nothing left."

"No one understands because you won't let anyone understand!"

"People can't live forever, can they?"

"The whole world is a cage when you're trapped in it alone."

"Don't give up. These things have a way of returning."

"God is a spectator. He just reads the box scores."

"Never give up on a miracle."

"You must be so lonely."

"How could you possibly understand what it's like to lose everything that you've ever loved?"

"People keep telling me it wasn't my fault. I know they're just saying it to shut me up."

"You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day."

Loss Sentences, Vol. 1

(Sentences from various sources for muses that have lost something or someone. Adjust phrasing where needed)

"I don't know what to do with myself half the time, and the other half I'm pissed."

"Loss changes us in ways we can never fully comprehend."

"Grief is strange. It comes at you from odd angles."

"Death is a hard thing to deal with; murder's close to impossible."

"We mourn not only for what was lost but also for the future that will never be."

"The day you lose someone isn't the worst - at least you've got something to do. It's all the days they stay dead."

"People are starting to worry about you, you know that?"

"Sometimes now I forget what happened for five minutes, maybe ten. Sometimes it brings me to my knees."

"You're not going to go through this alone."

"It doesn't pay to dwell on the past."

"You can't bring her back."

"Staring at her picture won't bring her back."

"Falling in love with someone isn't supposed to be the same experience every time. Someone else will be someone else."

"I'm not drinking to get drunk."

"Sometimes you have to talk about things that make you feel uncomfortable."

"You can't blame yourself for what happened."

"The past is the past; I wish to move forward."

"I know what it's like to lose a great love. It can change you - force you to make bad decisions."

"I can't remember their voices..."

"Love may come and love may go, but to have someone that really understands you... That's nothing that no one can take away."

"Do you close yourself off to people and deny yourself things that might bring you pleasure because it's some sort of penance?"

"No matter how hard we try, time cannot heal all wounds."

"No love, however brief, is wasted."

"I'm hurting, but I'll manage."

"One is quite alone when the last one who remembers is gone."

"I don't want to talk about the past."

"If you are ready to talk about it, I'd very much like to know, but I'm not going to ask you about it anymore."

"Time heals all wounds. Sometimes it just takes a larger dose."

"You're not fine, I know. I know because I've been where you are."

"To lose someone is to carry a piece of them within us forever."

"Were you two close?"

"Your loss would break my heart."

"We all have to live with ghosts."

"I don't speak of it because I find the matter painful."

Since Hiro had died, Tadashi had slowly shattered with the grief && guilt that weighted him down, locking himself in the room that they’d shared && refusing to eat or talk to anyone. In desperation, his aunt had asked his friends to come over && help her talk him into at least eating something. 

But despite his friends’ && aunt’s best attempts, he’d barricaded himself in his room && refused all contact-- && rather violently at that, complete with hysterical screaming && a few thrown objects-- namely the clothes that he’d worn the night of the exposition && a book.

A few days passed, && Tadashi had not moved from where he’d collapsed with exhaustion after his fit-- he remained with his face buried in Hiro’s pillow, breathing in the fading scent of his brother. && if he cried during the nights, well, that was his business, wasn’t it?

He glanced over to the thrown clothes, still where they’d landed after his fit, freezing when he noticed his pants moving slightly. Slowly he moved to investigate, exhaustion clear in his sluggish movements && slumped shoulders.

Reaching into the back pocket of his pants, he finds the microbot. For a moment, he considers that it might be malfunctioning, but Hiro doesn’t-- or rather, didn’t-- make flawed bots. He was always skilled in a way Tadashi could never hope to be.

He drops it in a petri dish, frowning as he realized that it appeared to be trying to go somewhere. The other microbots were all supposed to be destroyed but... if this one was trying to go somewhere, then there must be some bots left--while that didn’t make sense, it was the only possible explanation-- Hiro did not produce flawed bots.

Tadashi toed on his shoes, && threw on a hoodie, pulling the hood over his head && leaving quickly, ignoring his aunt && her excitement over his first departure from his room in days. Perhaps it was cold, but Tadashi was on a mission.

Following the bot led to a locked warehouse. Tadashi did not let it deter him. Though it was not the most... legal decision he could have made, he returned home for a bolt cutter && cut the lock off--

&& then he froze, bolt cutter && microbot falling from his hands with a loud clatter as he came face to face with his brother.