“They didn’t leave because they didn’t care, they left because they couldn’t keep trying to convince you to care.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’ve never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.”— Joanne Harris, amazon.com
“They won’t understand until you leave. The minute you walk away you’ll become ‘the best they’ve ever had.’ It’s crazy how loss triggers love.”— Alex Elle, whisper.sh
“Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.”— Carl Jung, amazon.com
“Do you know what your problem is? You can’t live with the idea that someone might leave.”— John Green, amazon.com
“You’re really going, then? What shall I do? I cannot keep you. And If I could, I still wouldn’t want to.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“You’re trying to leave yourself behind, but you can’t. The more you try to run away from yourself, the more you’ll have yourself with you.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don’t lift a finger for a lost cause.”— Stieg Larsson, amazon.com
“Don’t stay because you are afraid of change, saying goodbye, or ending up alone, there is nothing more harmful to your heart and soul than sharing them with someone not meant for you.”— Beau Taplin, thoughtcatalog.com
“I knew what I wanted to run to. But it didn’t exist, so I didn’t leave.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.”— Gabrielle Zevin, amazon.com
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”— Azar Nafisi, amazon.com
“Nothing is worse than when someone who’s supposed to love you just leaves.”— Ava Dellaira, amazon.com
“I love you-I do-but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you’re always going to leave me…We can’t deny it. You’re always going to leave.”— David Levithan, amazon.com