“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”— Lewis Carrol, amazon.com
“Bob: 'I don't want to leave.' Charlotte: 'So don't. Stay here with me. We'll start a jazz band.'”— Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray, Charlotte, Bob, amazon.com
“He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.”— Garth Stein, amazon.com
“Even with everything broken and decided inside her she couldn't quite allow herself to disappear for good.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?”— John Green, amazon.com
“Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.”— John Green, amazon.com
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Leave the man who breaks your wings And uses them as crutches Just so he can learn to fly.’”— Shahida Arabi, gumroad.com
“My problem is with anybody who just vanishes and then just waltzes back in and expects to be instantly forgiven.”— Peyton Sawyer, amazon.com
“Every day I come by your house and I pick you up. And we go out. We have a few drinks, and a few laughs, and it's great. But you know what the best part of my day is? For about ten seconds, from when I pull up to the curb and when I get to your door, 'cause I think, maybe I'll get up there and I'll…”— Ben Affleck, amazon.com
“You're leaving because it's easier to walk away than to fight for what you really want.”— Aria, amazon.com
“I can see myself watching him shave every morning. And at other time I see us in that house and see how one bright day (or a day like this, so cold your mind shifts every time the wind does) he will wake up and decide it's all wrong. I'm sorry, he'll say. I have to leave now.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“I hope when you open the door to find that I’m no longer there. That for one second you sit where I sat and contemplate whether you ever deserved someone like me.”— Samantha King, amazon.com