“Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.”— Paulo Coelho, facebook.com
“With a heavy heart, I turned and walked away. I knew that as long as I lived I’d never forget…”— Wilson Rawls, amazon.com
“I loved you. I would have loved to keep you. But we don’t talk at all now. Life is like that. Hope you’re well.”— Yrsa Daley Ward, thelovejournals.com
“There is more to life than chasing after someone who does not want to be in yours.”— Bianca Sparacino, biancasparacino.tumblr.com
“We choose to heal and we choose to move forward by being brave and vulnerable enough to heal.”— Desmond Tutu, vividlife.me
“I don’t hate you. I just dislike you. I dislike you thoroughly and I’m through with you.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“They say you don’t get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don’t deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruc…”— Yasmin Mogahed, amazon.com
“We demand closure as though our lives were put together as neatly as novels, but the fact of the matter is they’re not. In real life, relationships are messy and poorly written, ending too early or too late, and sometimes in the middle of a sentence.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“And if I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?”— John Green, amazon.com
“And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.”— Augusten Burroughs, amazon.com
“I am starting to accept that you never loved me. And it’s sad because I don’t think you see how beautiful you are to me. Your face was the light that chased away the shadows, every nightmare, every fear. But you burned out and now I’m learning to be afraid of the dark once again”— Sade Andria Zabala, amazon.com
“Freedom is just letting go of all the things I want everyone to notice about me.”— Chrissy Stockton, amazon.com
“If I love you, I won’t give up easily. Leaving is my last option, but if you push me away I will walk away knowing I gave it my all.”— Unknown, thelovejournals.com
“...I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.”— David Nicholls, amazon.com
“When someone’s been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them. You try to keep track of everything in your head. But it’s like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand: all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you’re just clutching air and grit.”— Jenny Han, amazon.com
“I’m all done with hating you. It’s all washed out of me. I hate people hard, but I don’t hate them very long.”— Raymond Chandler, amazon.com
“I guess that’s what saying good-bye is always like–like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you’re in the air, there’s nothing you can do but let go.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com