“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
“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
“Goodbye taught me that people don’t always stay and the things that belonged to you today can belong to someone else tomorrow.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Because the truth is, we don’t ever need to say goodbye to each other. We don’t need to clasp hands and kiss cheeks and drive one another to the airport just to put off the inevitable farewell. We just need to remember to live together while we’ve still got the chance.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“So when you have to say goodbye to your forever person, be thankful. Be thankful that you met them. Be thankful that you got the chance to know them. Be thankful that you got to feel the way you felt about them in your lifetime. Because some people never do.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“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
“I told her that saying goodbye didn't matter, not a bit. What mattered were all the days you were together before that, all the things you remembered.”— Patricia Reilly Giff, amazon.com
“Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.”— Rachel Caine, amazon.com
“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