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“How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“Each time I say good-bye to a place I like, I feel like I am leaving a part of me behind. I guess whether we choose to travel as much as Marco Polo did or stay in the same spot from cradle to grave, life is a sequence of births and deaths. Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to light, old ones need to wither away.”
― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“I loved you when I left you.”
― Abby Norman

“She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anonymous. It is not, after all, where you live.

When you no longer need it, you pay a little something for its use; say 'thank you sir,' and when your business in that town is over, you go away from that room. Does anybody regret leaving a hotel room? Does anybody who has a home, a real home somewhere , want to stay there? Does anybody look back with affection of even disgust, at a hotel room when they leave it? You can only love or despise whatever living was done in that room. But the room itself? But you take a souvenir. Not, oh, not to remember the room. To remember, rather, the time and place of your business, your adventure. What can anyone feel for a hotel room? One doesn't any more feel for a hotel room than one expects a hotel room to feel for its occupant.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“And so, as quietly as he had lived, he slipped out of town, leaving only a note behind:

Well, that's that. I'm off, and if you don't believe I'm leaving, just count the days I'm gone. When you hear the phone not ringing, it'll be me that's not calling. Goodbye, old girl, and good luck.

Yours truly,
Earl Adcock

P.S. I'm not deaf.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it.”
― Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time

“If I look back when I begin to leave, will they remember me?”
― Owl City

“True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.”
― John Green

“A lie cannot live.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.”
― Richard Wright

“There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“Atunci am înțeles că nimic nu durează în suflet, că cea mai verificată încredere poate fi anulată de un singur gest, că cele mai sincere posesiuni nu dovedesc niciodată nimic, căci și sinceritatea poate fi repetată, cu altul, cu alții, că, în sfârșit, totul se uită sau se poate uita.”
― Mircea Eliade, Maitreyi

“Ceea ce nu trăim la timp, nu mai trăim niciodată.”
― octavian paler

“Așteptarea ne dă iluzia că facem ceva așteptând, când, de fapt, nu facem altceva decât să murim suportabil, puțin câte puțin…”
― Octavian Paler

“Pentru mine, moartea este doar hotarul unde încetează să mai existe "mâine". Numai până acolo poți să iubești, să visezi, să regreți. Brusc, tot ce n-ai făcut va rămâne pentru totdeauna nefăcut.”
― Octavian Paler, Deșertul pentru totdeauna

“Doar un pas ne desparte.
Nu ştiu dacă pasul absent
e al meu
sau al tău.
Tu stai pe un mal al lui
eu pe altul
şi între noi curge noaptea.
Ca să ajungem atât de aproape
ca să rămânem atât de departe
doar un pas ne desparte
şi între noi curge noaptea continuu
prin pasul absent.”
― Octavian Paler

“Cea mai mare fericire, după aceea de a iubi, e să-ţi mărturiseşti iubirea.”
― Octavian Paler

“Era încă pentru mine o femeie aproape necunoscută şi totuşi am simţit, pentru prima oară, o căldură care mi-a dezvăluit un adevăr surprinzător, că apariţia iubirii nu e un proces, e instantanee, aşa cum cred că e clipa morţii; că dragostea apare ca orice mare idee, fiind o ţâşnire de undeva din întunericul nostru.”
― Octavian Paler, Un om norocos

“Fiecare dintre noi a inteles, probabil, atunci ca nu exista "mai tarziu". Ca tot ce nu traim ramane netrait. Eu, oricum, aveam gust de cenusa in gura. A fost prima oara cand am simtit ca orice amanare e o iluzie si o moarte. Ca a tergiversa e o forma de a muri.”
― Octavian Paler, Viața ca o coridă

“Uneori, omul e în situaţia lui Cortes, de a arde toate corăbiile care l-ar putea duce înapoi, ca să poată merge înainte.”
― Octavian Paler

“Din pacate, nu stiu sa le spun oamenilor pe care ii iubesc cat de mult ii iubesc. Imi ascund, dintr-o proasta pudoare, ori din timiditate, ori din mandrie prost inteleasa, ori din toate aceste motive la un loc, nevoia mea dureroasa de ei, recunostinta pentru tot ce mi-au dat, regretele pentru tot ce nu le-am dat eu. Aici este adevarata mea salbaticie. Cea mai grava. Cea mai trista.”
― Octavian Paler

“Iubirile mari sînt tocmai acelea de care te îndoieşti mai mult.”
― Mihail Drumes, Invitaţia la vals

“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“What are you going to do with your life?" In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her this forever; teachers, her parents, friends at three in the morning, but the question had never seemed this pressing and still she was no nearer an answer... "Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“Can I say something?'
'Go on'
'I'm a little drunk'
'Me too. That's okay.'
'Just....I missed you, you know.'
'I missed you too.'
'But so, so much, Dexter. There were so many things I wanted to talk to you about, and you weren't there-'
'same here.'
'I tell you what it is. It's.....When I didn't see you, I thought about you every day, I mean EVERY DAY in some way or another-'
'same here.'
'-Even if it was just "I wish Dexter could see this" or "Where's Dexter now?" or "Christ that Dexter, what an idiot", you know what I mean, and seeing you today, well, I thought I'd got you back - my BEST friend. And now all this, the wedding, the baby- I'm so happy for you, Dex, but it feels like I've lost you again.'-

-'You know what happens you have a family, your responsibilities change, you lose touch with people'
'It won't be like that, I promise.'
'Do you?'
'Absolutely'
'You swear? No more disappearing?'
'I won't if you won't.'
Their lips touched now, mouths pursed tight, their eyes open, both of them stock still. The moment held, a kind of glorious confusion.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“This is me.’" He handed her the precious scrap of paper. ‘Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it’s not a competition. You don’t lose if you phone first.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“It was my destiny to love and say goodbye.”
― Pablo Neruda, Still Another Day