Quotes About Closure

All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.

'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.

Even in the busiest kitchen, there's always a point at the end of the day when you go home.

If you know something will eventually come to an end, you can handle it.

As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

Sometimes when really bad things happen, you put them in a box and never look at them again because they'll cost you the rest of your life. Some wounds never heal. You excise the savaged flesh and become the next thing.

The worst part about losing someone you love—besides the agony of never getting to see them again—are the things you never said. The unsaid stalks you, mocks you for thinking you had all the time in the world. None of us do.

I'm going be that n-n-nail in your coffin

People waste so much time mulling over things they've done when all the mulling in the world neither undoes nor changes one iota of what you did. The only thing that alters the unsatisfying state in which you've left things is future action. Either never see the person again, or see them and do something to set the record straight.

Death is the final chapter in a book you can't unread. You keep waiting to feel like the person you were before that chapter ended. You never will.

Once you walked away, you had to keep walking and never look back.

Still, you'd lose them again, one way or another, because they were meant to be dead.

Sometimes you don't get closure, you just move on.

It's very possible and very okay to forgive someone and still not want to spend time with them

Just cuz you get to the end doesn't mean you know what happened.

All shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone." The Time Between

I don't hold on grudges, you know. They're like expired milk in the fridge.

Grief was like that, Ceecee had learned. It either opened your heart or closed it.

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!

The first is about forgiveness. It is never done well in little bits and dabs. Do it all at once and never look back, or do not do it at all.

The second reason I was angry about the breakup is that even though I knew our relationship wasn't going anywhere, I slept with him. Normally

of course the edges of the wound struggle to close up and the clock wants to be set going (how awkward to be pointing permanently to half past one) amputated limbs feel phantom pain

Goodbye -- Because I love you.

You can't turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you've created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can't see it anymore.