“In fact, if he's thinking about something in his own mind, just let him be. I'd appreciate it if people gave me the same courtesy.”— Bill Rotko, Dr. Aaron Glassman, Richard Schiff, imdb.com
“I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye,…”— Yann Martel, amazon.com
“When she needed help most, she was abandoned—and only when she offered help to others was she beloved.”— Matthew Quick, amazon.com
“If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven’t, you cannot possibly imagine it.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“When someone leaves you once, you expect it to happen again. Eventually you stop getting close enough to people to let them become important to you, because then you don’t notice when they drop of your world.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“You will go on and meet someone else and I’ll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.”— Marian Keyes, amazon.com
“Nothing is worse than when someone who’s supposed to love you just leaves.”— Ava Dellaira, amazon.com
“Do you know how it hurts to touch you knowing that in the morning I’ll still wake up alone?”— Shinji Moon, amazon.com
“I love you – I do – but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you’re always going to leave me…We can’t deny it. You’re always going to leave.”— David Levithan, amazon.com
“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”— Maggie O'Farrell, amazon.com
“I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Then he left, and with him he took the sun, the moon, the stars, and anything inside of me that might have been good.”— Julie Murphy, amazon.com
“I might have been afraid that if I really loved someone and needed her, one day she might suddenly disappear without a word, and I’d be left all alone.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it…”— Henry Rollins, amazon.com