“We ruined ourselves―I have never honestly thought that we ruined each other.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Okay, we didn’t work, and all memories to tell you the truth aren’t good. But sometimes there were good times. Love was good. I loved your crooked sleep beside me and never dreamed afraid. There should be stars for great wars like ours.”— Sandra Cisneros, amazon.com
“Of course, you never really forget anyone, but you certainly release them. You stop allowing their history to have any meaning for you today. You let them change their haircut, let them move, let them fall in love again. And when you see this person you have let go, you realize that there is no reas…”— Chelsea Fagan, thoughtcatalog.com
“'How do you know when it's over?' 'Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you.'”— Gunnar Ardelius, amazon.com
“The doctor says it’s asthma. The psychiatrist says it’s anxiety. But deep down inside I know that the day you walked out, the day you told me to go was the day I stopped knowing how to breathe.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, amazon.com
“It's so hard to leave-until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”— John Green, amazon.com
“I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine eve…”— Raymond Carver, amazon.com
“Anna: Why do you leave everyone? Why did you let me go? Oliver: Maybe because I... I don't really believe that it's gonna work, and then I make sure that it doesn't work.”— Mike Mills, Anna and Oliver, Mélanie Laurent and Ewan McGregor, amazon.com
“...I want you to know how sorry I am for pushing you away when I had only meant to bring you closer.”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“When people say "there are other fish in the sea" I say "fuck you, she was my sea.”— Jen Faulkner, goodreads.com
“Once someone has let you go emotionally, it's over, no matter how tightly or desperately you commit to hang on. Better to release yourself from the relationship with your dignity intact, than fight a losing battle and risk lasting damage to your heart.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“Don’t call me. Don’t text me. Don’t snap me. Don’t tag me in cute Facebook videos. Don’t ask my family or my friends how I’m doing.”— Mike Zacchio, thoughtcatalog.com
“I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once.”— Yann Martel, amazon.com
“Some relationships just end. Like a star, they burn bright and brilliant, and then nothing in particular goes wrong, they just reach their end. They burn out.”— Cora Carmack, amazon.com