Luis Ibanez

“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.”
― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.”
― Anita Shreve, The Pilot's Wife

“I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow

“Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle