“Ah, you hate to see another tired man Lay down his hand like he was giving up the holy game of poker And while he talks his dreams to sleep you notice there's a highway That is curling up like smoke above his shoulder It is curling just like smoke above his shoulder”— Leonard Cohen, amazon.com
“Go, even though there is nowhere to go. Go, even though you don't know exactly why you can't stay. Go, because you want to. Because wanting to leave is enough.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“I’d found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.”— Morgan Matson, amazon.com
“There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”— Kate DiCamillo, amazon.com
“Once a friend had told me that it was only when I was drunk that I seemed to know exactly what I wanted. And so, two months later, in the midst of the farewell party in my growing wildness—dancing, balancing a wine glass on my forehead and falling to the floor twisting round and getting up without l…”— Michael Ondaatje, amazon.com
“What lazy lovers we are. Such reluctant soulmates. My hair comes out in the shower and I swear it misses your hands. I have weeks of unplayed Jeopardy!. I don’t want to ask questions. I know better than to ask anything at all.”— Brenna Twohy, brennatwohy.tumblr.com
“Here is how you walk away from him: you get up, flick your hair, sashay away and never look back.”— Kat George, thoughtcatalog.com
“There comes a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.”— Tennessee Williams, goodreads.com
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”— Nelson Mandela, brainyquote.com
“Laurie couldn't sleep. It was her third night at the Outpost, and the transition wasn't going as smoothly as she'd hoped. Part of it was the strangeness, after twenty-three years of marriage and nine months of communal living, of once again having a room of her own. She just wasn't accustomed to sol…”— Tom Perrotta, amazon.com