“He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“You weren’t ready for the love I was to give, and I wasn’t patient enough to teach you the lessons you needed to learn for yourself.”— Nathalie Marie, thoughtcatalog.com
“I am allowed to leave; I know this. I’m allowed to walk away anything that doesn’t feel right, any situation that isn’t comfortable, any part of my life that isn’t what I need. I need to leave this, us, you. And I’m sorry, but you have to let me.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“You try to plant roots, but you weren’t born with seeds; you were born with wings, so you do what you do best – you leave.”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com
“With you, I learned that sometimes the best way to love someone, was to simply love yourself more — to simply walk away, to save yourself the pain of trying to patch and sew up something that was never going to be fixed; something that was beyond repair.”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“If you have to convince someone to stay with you, then they have already left.”— Shannon L. Alder, thinkpozitive.com
“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“People don't leave because things are hard, they leave because they realize it's no longer worth it.”— Unknown, twitter.com
“You always have the choice to leave until you find where you belong and what makes you happy.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“We sometimes look at leaving as a bad thing or associate it with giving up or quitting, but sometimes leaving is the best thing you can do for yourself.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t find yourself in. You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t love yourself in.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“The last time you touch her will feel remarkably like the first. She will be drunk and smiling and full of love for you when she steps out of her dress. You will forget she is leaving because you can still hold her face in your hands. You will forget she is leaving because her lips are soft and wet…”— Joaquin Fernandez, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com