Quotes About Letting go

Cuando alguien se ha ido durante mucho tiempo, primero guardas todas las cosas que quieres decirles. Intentas mantener un seguimiento de todo en tu cabeza. Pero es como si trataras de aferrarte a un puñado de arena, todos los pequeños trozos se deslizan de tus manos y entonces sólo estás reteniendo polvo y aire. Es por eso que no puedes guardarlo todo así.

I think that if I just delete him enough it will be like none of it ever happened, and my heart won't hurt so badly.

And Josh was never in a hot tub video with one of his daughters." "Oh my God, let it go already! My dad's forgotten about that." "Forgotten" might be too strong of a word. Maybe more like he's never brought it up again and he hopefully never will.

It feels strange to have spent so much time wishing for something, for someone, and then one day, suddenly, to just stop. I

I've been comparing myself to her, all the ways I don't measure up. All the ways our relationship pales next to theirs. I'm the one who couldn't let her go. I'm the one who didn't give us a chance.

I thought I was over him ... I meant it, I swear I did. It wasn't even that hard, not really.

Because after I write my letter, I'm no longer consumed by my all-consuming love.

We decided to leave the past in the past. The future was where we were headed.

This is our life; there's no use in asking what if.

I'm so suddenly certain that everything is exactly the way it's supposed to be, that I don't have to be so afraid of good-bye, because good-bye doesn't have to be forever.

but my heart doesn't seem to understand it's over.

What we had was perfect, and it was finite in the way that all good things are. Nothing gold can stay. I take off the necklace Reeve gave me and then I cry until the sun comes up. For what could have been and what will never be.

I wonder if this was the way old crushes died, with a whimper, slowly, and then, just like that - gone.

Te libero. Te echo de mi corazón. Porque si no lo hago ahora, nunca lo haré.

I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.' I was the one to look away first.

I wave the letter like it's just paper, trash, like once upon a time I didn't literally pour my heart onto this page. I stuff it into my bag.

és elt?n?dtem, vajon így múlik-e el a régi szerelem: lassan, panaszosan, aztán egyszer csak teljesen.

I suppose there's only one thing I can do. I'll write him another letter. A postscript with as any pages as it takes to X away whatever feelings I have left for him. I'll put this whole thing to rest, once and for all.

I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.

Ours was the kind of friendship that makes sense as a kid but not so much now that we're older. I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.

I know we'll never be friends again, and I've made my peace with it.

Around three a.m. I throw away Peter's notes. I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly.

Breathing in, I know that I am of the nature to grow old. Breathing out, I know that I cannot escape old age. Breathing in, I know that I am of the nature to get sick. Breathing out, I know that I cannot escape sickness. Breathing in, I know that I am of the nature to die. Breathing out, I know that I cannot escape dying. Breathing in, I know that one day I will have to let go of everything and everyone I love. Breathing out, I know there is no way to bring them along.

I had to decide in the next few seconds: Would I let my past keep screwing up my present and my future?