“I am not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.”— Louisa May Alcott, amazon.com
“There should have been a better farewell. But in the end, there never is. And we take what meagre scraps we can find.”— Richard K. Morgan, amazon.com
“There is no comfort in the word 'farewell,' even if you say it in French. 'Farewell' is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.”— Kate DiCamillo, amazon.com
“Goodbyes also hold a little bit of hope, because goodbye is not farewell, goodbye means till we meet again, goodbye means maybe not now but later, goodbye means someday we’ll say hello again; at another place and another time and goodbye is not always the end.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com