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“Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.”

“This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things. I never knew there were so many different ways to say goodbye.”

People Way Love Kind Different Stories Love Story Different Ways Goodbye Different Things Saying Goodbye Kinds Of Love

Book:Linger

Source: Linger

“Hers was a memory made up of snapshorts: being dragged through the snow by a pack of wolves, first kiss tasting of oranges, saying goodbye behind a cracked windshield. A life made up of promises of what could be: the possibilities contained in a stack of college applications, the thrill of sleeping under a strange roof, the future that lay in Sam's smile. It was a life I didn't want to leave behind. It was a life I didn't want to forget I wasn't done with it yet. There was so much more to say.”

“It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.”

Persons Hard Goodbye Saying Goodbye Hard To Say Goodbye

Book:Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel

“I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday.”

I Can Running Song Love You Yesterday Goodbye Saying Goodbye Keep Running Love You More I Love You More

Author:John Mayer

“Since I’ve known you, you’ve been spinning and spinning and spinning into all these various personas, and none of this self-exploration and experimentation has given you a sense of peace. I’ve known you for six years, intimately for four, and I still have no idea who I’m in love with.”

Years Stills Ideas Self Given Known Four Six Various No Idea Exploration Spinning Persona Saying Goodbye Experimentation

Book:Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel

Source: Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel

“It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.”

Interesting Soup Saying Goodbye Mushrooms Chandeliers

Author:Tennessee Williams

“It was my destiny to love and say goodbye.”

Destiny Goodbye Saying Goodbye My Destiny

Book:Still Another Day

Source: Still Another Day

“I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.”

Ends Goodbye Leaving Me Saying Goodbye

Author:Philippa Gregory

“But what is it that makes a person want to stay here on this earth anyway, and go on suffering the most awful pain just for the sake of getting to stay? I used to think it was because people fear death. But now I think it is because people can't bear saying goodbye.”

People Thinking Want Persons Earth Pain Used Suffering Goes On Bears Sake Awful Goodbye Fear Of Death Saying Goodbye

Book:Scholastic Newbery Collection

Source: Scholastic Newbery Collection

“The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.”

Littles Dies Phrases Goodbye Saying Goodbye

Book:The Long Goodbye: A Novel

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel

“When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to strangers. Long before the moment came to say goodbye, I think, we said goodbye in other words and ways and silences. Then when the moment came for it at last, we didn't say it as should be said by friends. So now at last, dear Mouse, with many, many years between: goodbye.”

Thinking Way Should Years Long Said Moments Lasts Speak Silence Gone Dear Stranger Goodbye Mice Saying Goodbye Present Time Times Gone By

Author:Frederick Buechner

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”

Ifs Thinking Should Heart Littles Made Soul Hard Wealth Poor Poverty Heartbreak Should Have Made It Gifted Obscure Leaving Me Saying Goodbye Heartless Soulless Causes Of Poverty

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“Goodbye, Room." I wave up at Skylight. "Say goodbye," I tell Ma. "Goodbye, Room." Ma says it but on mute. I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we go out the door.”

Looks Rooms Happened Doors Wave Holes Goodbye More Time Saying Goodbye Mute Craters Skylights

Book:Room: Picador Classic

Source: Room: Picador Classic

“Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.”

Heart May Ends Seems Memories Forever My Heart Goodbye Farewell Saying Goodbye Bye Good Bye Saying Good Bye Goodbye Farewell Saying Goodbye Is Hard Good Farewell

Author:Walt Disney

“Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.' 'No.' 'It might be important.' 'It might make her die.”

Should Important Might Dies Goodbye Saying Goodbye Before I Die

Book:Before I Die

Source: Before I Die

“is this fragile love/ a way/ to say/ goodbye”

Way Goodbye Fragile Saying Goodbye

Book:Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

Source: Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)

“I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.”

People Littles Hate Easier Goodbye Saying Goodbye Hate Me Helpfulness

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like you're given the choice to say bad-bye, or awful-bye, or couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye. Everytime you leave, it's supposed to be a good one.”

Believe Care Choices Given I Believe Like You Awful Supposed To Be Goodbye Saying Goodbye Bye Saying Good Bye

Author:John Green

“I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever?”

Wonder Forever Goodbye Saying Goodbye

Book:Sunny: Diary Three

Source: Sunny: Diary Three

“If she says goodbye perhaps adieu. Adieu - like those old time songs she sang. Always adieu (and all songs say it). If she too says it, or weeps, I'll take her in my arms, my lunatic. She's mad but mine, mine. What will I care for gods or devils or for Fate itself. If she smiles or weeps or both. For me.”

Ifs Care Song Fate Mines Arms Devil Mad Goodbye I Care Saying Goodbye Lunatic Old Time Adieu

Book:Wide Sargasso Sea

Source: Wide Sargasso Sea

“It's lonely to say goodbye. Very lonely. Please. Cry with me. Maybe there's nothing we can do about this. But at least, for now...cry with me. Like your entire body...is screaming at the sky. Like it's raging against the world. I lost something. And I don't have a single guarantee. The fear of living in this world again after that...I have only a shred of hope to sustain me. So I want you at least...to cry. Cry. Cry with me. Like the day you were first born into this world.”

World Want Firsts Body Lost Can Do Born Sky Cry This World Please Lonely Rage Guarantees Goodbye I Want You Saying Goodbye

Author:Natsuki Takaya

“No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.”

Knows World Should Made Said Perfect Goodbye Saying Goodbye

Book:Nation

Source: Nation

“Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye”

Inspirational Found Inspiring Letting Go Goodbye Thank God Saying Goodbye Good Bye Letting Go And Moving On

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“I'm writing this down, because it is going to be hard for me to say it. Because this is probably our last time just us. See, I can write that down, but I don't think I can say it. I'm not doing this to say goodbye, though I know that has to be part of it. I'm doing it to thank you for all we have had and done and been for one another, to say I love you for making this life of mine what it is. Leaving you is the hardest thing I have to do. But the thing is, the best parts of me are in you, all three of you. You are who I am, and what I cherish in myself stays on in you.”

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel

“It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye.”

Humans Messages Goodbye Saying Goodbye Bye Good Bye

Book:Bluebeard: A Novel

Source: Bluebeard: A Novel

“Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving deceptive — don’t mourn them uselessly. As one long prepared, and graced with courage, say goodbye to her, the Alexandria that is leaving. Above all, don’t fool yourself, don’t say it was a dream, your ears deceived you: don’t degrade yourself with empty hopes like these.”

Long Dream Gone Plans Failing Fool Prove Empty Ears Luck Prepared Leaving Goodbye Deceived Mourn Saying Goodbye Degrade Deceptive Alexandria

Author:C.P. Cavafy

“Mr False Pretence, you don't make sense I just don't know you But you make me cry, where's my kiss goodbye I think I love you”

Thinking Knows Love You Cry Kissing Make Sense Goodbye Saying Goodbye Pretence

Author:Amy Winehouse

“But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.”

World Ships Goodbye Saying Goodbye Sinking Bail Overboard

Book:What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“At the end of the day I have always seen the end of my relationships as a personal failure. There is nothing ever pretty in saying goodbye.”

Ends Goodbye The End Of The Day Saying Goodbye Personal Failure

Author:Elisabetta Canalis

“Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.”

My Own Pride Cold Rivers Dear Wave Farewell Saying Goodbye Plunge Great Ones Farewell Love Splashing

Author:Boris Pasternak

“true love never says goodbye”

Goodbye Saying Goodbye Never Say Goodbye

Book:Fallen in Love

Source: Fallen in Love

“A sea of red lights, and I slow down. My job now is to gather everyone together and tell them we have to let her go. I won't tell anyone over the phone, because I didn't like hearing the news from the doctor that way. I have maybe a week to handle the arrangements, as the doctor said, but the arrangements are overwhelming. How do I learn how to run a family? How do I say goodbye to someone I love so much that I've forgotten just how much I love her?”

Way Said Light Running Together Jobs Week Sea News Red Doctors Forgotten Phones Hearing Handle Goodbye Overwhelming Arrangements Slow Down Saying Goodbye Red Lights Let Her Go

Author:Kaui Hart Hemmings

“Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it.”

Giving Feels Promise Kissing Give Me Goodbye Saying Goodbye Brows Eyelids Profundity Goodbye Farewell Just Kiss Me Les Miserable Les Mis Marius

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy details of another farewell. Now, my fingers hovered over my track pad, moving the cursor down to his comment section before I stopped myself. What was the point? Anything I said now would only be an afterthought. Elizabeth who goes by her middle name”

Said Moving Names Middle Easier Fingers Track Details Disappear Goodbye Comment Sections Farewell Messy Saying Goodbye Pads Afterthought

Book:What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.”

Knows Forever Mortals Saying Goodbye

Book:Lavinia

Source: Lavinia

“But if there was a protocol for how to say goodbye to your newly ex-boyfriend's brother, right after you kissed him and probably sent your ex into the arms of his willing ex-girlfriend, I didn't know what it was.”

Ifs Knows Willing Brother Arms Girlfriend Goodbye Exes Saying Goodbye Protocol Ex Boyfriend Ex Girlfriend Your Ex

Book:Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake

Source: Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake

“Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy”

People Easy Goodbye Saying Goodbye

Book:Between the Lines

Source: Between the Lines

“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”

“Dor shook his head. “The phrase. What does it mean?” Sarah wondered if he was kidding. “Time flies? You know, like, time goes really fast and suddenly you’re saying goodbye and it’s like no time passed at all?” His eyes drifted. He liked it. “Time flies.” “With you,” she added.”

Ifs Knows Mean Doe Eye Phrases His Eyes Goodbye Saying Goodbye Time Flies

Author:Mitch Albom

“Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.”

Saying Goodbye Letting You Go Letting Go And Moving On

Author:Alice Walker

“Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.”

Knows Ideas Problem Might Goodbye Do You Know Saying Goodbye

Book:An Abundance of Katherines

Source: An Abundance of Katherines

“Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.”

Remember Behinds Stage Summer Leaving Goodbye Autumn Saying Goodbye End Of Summer Summer Is Coming

Author:David Mitchell

“I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.”

Knows Littles Said Fall Know How Stupid Holes Goodbye Climbs They Said Saying Goodbye

Book:A Stitch in Time

Source: A Stitch in Time

“I want him to know I love him. I want him to feel that we both tried, but this was way too big for us: we aren't going to survive this. Even if I hadn't done what I did with Mal, almost all the strings of our marriage have been severed; waiting together to say goodbye is the last one. Once it has been cut, only love will remain. And it takes more than love--no matter how fervent, deep and passionate--to keep two people together.”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Love Feels Has Beens Two Matter Done Bigs Age Together Lasts Waiting Cutting Passionate Goodbye Strings Saying Goodbye Only Love Want Him I Love Him Fervent

Author:Dorothy Koomson

“The truth is that she told me she couldn't love me. When she said goodbye, she was saying goodbye forever. And yet. I made myself forget. I don't know why. I keep asking myself. But I did.”

Knows Made Said Forget Forever Truth Is Asking Goodbye Saying Goodbye

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

“Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.”

Littles Dying Goodbye Saying Goodbye

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Glóin!”

Ifs Light Joy Night Dark Known Lord Taken Worst Danger Son Wounds Torment Alas Parting Saying Goodbye Hold Me Gimli

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved”

Love Suffering Imagination Grief Darkness Sorrow Bereavement Saying Goodbye

Book:The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

Source: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.”

Past Sound Sweet Finals Teeth Ties Strings Bites Farewell Saying Goodbye Reluctance

Author:John Steinbeck

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