“I caught the balloon by the end of its string. I did not catch the balloon. I was sorry to see it go. A lot of things get smaller. Shoes, jackets. Don’t laugh at me. I know the sound a dog makes when it’s in love. I know what people do when they get married. There are some grown-ups in the other roo…”— Maria Martin, narrativemagazine.com
“The person who doesn’t value you is blocking you from the one who will. Let them go.”— Robert Tew, goodreads.com
“The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You’re not responsible for everything. You can’t control the way things end up.”— Courtney Summers, amazon.com
“in my comfortable silences now i am filled with most discomfort, searching endlessly for the sounds of you in all the places you are not”— M. Ocean, amazon.com
“It's hard to let go of anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.”— Madeline L’Engle, amazon.com
“Sometimes you’re going to have to let one person go a thousand different times, a thousand different ways, and there’s nothing pathetic or abnormal about that. You are human.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com
“It is not human nature to let go. We are, at our core, territorial creatures. We fight to hold onto what we love. Giving up isn’t in any way instinctual.”— Heidi Priebe, thoughtcatalog.com