“Leave. Even if it means breaking your heart, because you know that hearts will naturally heal when it breaks. Be as smart as your heart.”— Jillian Bacarisas, thoughtcatalog.com
“Be a woman who knows when to leave houses, marriages, and relationships, because it doesn’t feels like home anymore.”— Jillian Bacarisas, thoughtcatalog.com
“No woman should stay in a relationship that feels like a cage.”— Jillian Bacarisas, thoughtcatalog.com
“You always know when it is time to leave. The question is, will you?”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“Sometimes we think we can make them stay. But we can’t. Because we can’t make people feel, we can’t make them love, we can’t change their heart just by giving them ours.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“I can’t hate you for leaving because life is too short to hold onto things and people that don’t fill our hearts with happiness and purpose.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s only after you leave behind the people who don’t deserve you, do you run into the arms of someone who does.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“Leaving isn’t a sign of weakness. It doesn’t mean you’re giving up. Sometimes leaving is the greatest sign of strength you can have.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“It didn’t feel like goodbye, it felt like it was the start of something new, which in the end made leaving easier because I trusted that it was true.”— Chelsea Forbes-Terry, thoughtcatalog.com.loox.nu
“Now go. Leaving quickly is the best thing you can do. Don't think about it, don't look back, and don't think that what's behind you is better than what's in front because it's not. Not in the very least.”— Celia McMahon, amazon.com
“Angry at him for leaving without a word, angry at myself for being so easy to leave and for not being enough to make him want to stick around.”— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com
“There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are times when the leaving reminds you a hundred times over why exactly you had to leave in the first place.”— Shauna Niequist, 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
“I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.”— Ann Rinaldi, amazon.com
“Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.”— Rachel Caine, amazon.com