“It is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Do you know there's a halfway world between each ending and each new beginning? It's called the hurting time, Jean Perdu. It's a bog; it's where your dreams and worries and forgotten plans gather. Your steps are heavier during that time. Don't underestimate that transition, Jeanno, between farewell…”— Nine George, barnesandnoble.com
“There's no such thing as a completely fresh start. Everything new arrives on the heels of something old, and every new beginning comes at the cost of an ending.”— Jennifer E. Smith, amazon.com
“Life went on without you. Of course, it did. Of course, it does. It was just an ending, they tell me, not the end.”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where you are with an ending.”— Neil Gaiman
“He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.”— Emily Giffin, amazon.com
“There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”— Sophie Kinsella, amazon.com
“You wrote down all these things to say goodbye to, but so many of them are good things. Why not just say goodbye to the bad things? Say goodbye to all the times you felt lost, to all the times it was a ‘no’ instead of a ‘yes,’ to all the scrapes as and bruises, to all the heartache. Say goodbye to e…”— Lily Aldrin, amazon.com
“Your soul has fallen to bits and pieces. Good. Rearrange them to suit yourself.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“Love is not the last room: there are others after it, the whole length of the corridor that has no end.”— Yehuda Amichai, loc.gov
“‘Well,’ the Goddess said, 'your heart didn’t heal straight the last time it broke. So we’ll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.’”— Jane Yolen, amazon.com
“I’d finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted was a way in. I was there now. Or close.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over. Slowly, I began to realize that I could not go back and force things to…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius t…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Our epic story began long ago, From the day that we met, I loved you so, Wish I had the chance to relive the past, To change the day our bitter fate was cast.”— Annamarie Jayne, allpoetry.com
“You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.”— Jane Hirshfield, amazon.com
“What we call the beginning is often the end And to make and end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com