“Goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.”— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com
“Saying good-bye when you know it's for the last time is like no other sadness you will ever experience.”— Allison DuBois, amazon.com
“It's not the good-bye that matters. What matters is that you're never going to be able to say anything else to them. And you're left with an eternal unfinished conversation.”— Morgan Matson, amazon.com
“I thought I was stronger than a word, but I just discovered that having to say goodbye to you is by far the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“Because I left him, I feel even more empowered than ever. Because I left him, I remember what it’s like to be the girl who is always smiling.”— AJ Ecton, thoughtcatalog.com
“Of course it hurts knowing how this is all so wrong of me, this constant need for movement, even backward”— Carlie Hoffman, narrativemagazine.com
“If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere.”— Robin Hobb, amazon.com
“I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.”— Doug Cooper, amazon.com
“you finally get up enough courage you leave yet you change your mind while standing at the door”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“You try to act like you’re not hurt, you secretly hope he’s going to realize he messed up and you’ll take him back. But he doesn’t come back; in fact he barely even looked back at the wreck he left behind because to him it wasn’t a big deal. To him you weren’t really dating so why should it matter t…”— Becca Martin, thoughtcatalog.com