“So, the last, spoiled embrace. Those are happy who have no such in their memory. For those who have - would they endure that I should write of it?”
Source: Till We Have Faces
“I was such a messed up person and he was still holding on.”
Source: Prison of Paradise
“Goodbyes are always Crucial and will always be, but sometimes we don't know when we are saying the final goodbye to the person and don't even know which meeting is the last meeting with them.”
Source: Sukoon
“In the end, 'so long, Martin,' is what she had yearned to say all along, and there was more satisfaction in it than any elaborate revenge fantasy she could have conjured. They were headed in different directions, and this was sufficient.”
Source: Gods of Jade and Shadow
“Malcolm stares out the window, wishing he could glimpse Rufus on his bike turning a corner, and finally he cries, these loud, stuttering sobs, not because he'll now have a criminal record, not because he's scared to go to the police station, not even because Rufus is dying, but because the biggest crime of all tonight was not being able to hug his best friend goodbye.”
Source: They Both Die at the End
“You learn to say goodbye to places, to keep them in your heart and go on. Over the hills and a great way off.”
Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
“Saluto," one of them said in farewell.
"Arrivederci," I called, so as not to be outdone.”
Source: Busz po polsku
“Sometimes a goodbye is a necessary part of a larger journey that we do not understand. And at times, if the ‘goodbye’ doesn’t happen the next ‘hello’ won’t either.”
“People who ignore,
take you for granted,
say them 'Goodbye,'
meet me another day;
when your key's expired.”
“you are the poems I should never have
read out loud, as the rhythm comes to an end,
why do we do too?”
Source: The Moon and Her Secrets