“To my almost relationship, this is me letting go. This is me moving on. This is me for the first time, giving myself what I deserve.”— Kirsten Corley, thoughtcatalog.com
“Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.”— Maggie Stiefvater, amazon.com
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won't happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”— Joel Osteen, 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
“The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.”— Franz Wright, amazon.com
“You want everything to stay the same until you’re ready for it to change. But you can’t do that. You can’t expect the whole world to stand still until you’re ready.”— Gayle Friesen, amazon.com
“Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.”— Steve Chandler, amazon.com
“There are moments which mark your life. Moments when you realize nothing will ever be the same and time is divided into two parts, before this, and after this. Sometimes you can feel such a moment coming. That’s the test, or so I tell myself. I tell myself that at times like that, strong people keep…”— John Hobbes, imdb.com
“Tonight go to sleep as though your whole past has been dropped. Die to the past. And in the morning wake up as a new man in a new morning. Don’t let the same one who went to bed get up. Let him go to sleep for good.”— Osho, osho.com
“Yesterday is gone and you will be OK. Place your past into a book. Burn the pages, let 'em cook.”— Sia, play.spotify.com
“You need to let me go… You need to let me let you go.”— Sheila Callaghan, Fiona Gallagher, Emmy Rossum, imdb.com
“But you're neither friend nor foe Though I can't seem to let you go. The one thing that I still know is that you're keeping me down.”— Sara Bareilles, open.spotify.com
“Don’t wonder why they left let them wonder why you never asked Don’t wonder why they stopped caring let them wonder why you never cared to know”— Rania Naim, gumroad.com
“Someday, you will look for someone who resembles me and on that same day I will be with someone who doesn’t resemble you at all.”— Rania Naim, gumroad.com
“Cause you only need the light when it's burning low. Only miss the sun when it starts to snow. Only know you love her when you let her go. Only know you've been high when you're feeling low. Only hate the road when you're missing home. Only know you love her when you let her go”— Passenger, open.spotify.com
“There's a point when you go with what you've got. Or you don't go.”— Joan Didion, theparisreview.org
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com