Quotes About Closure

But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it's frozen shut.

You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?)

But you could've at least told me. Instead of dropping me like a one night stand, you could've had the decency to break up with me instead of leaving me wondering for years...

Maybe this is the point of it all. Maybe this is where the road is meant to end.

I've come to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it. Because when she cut off contact, yeah, I knew what had happened. But it took me a long, long time to believe it. Some days, I still don't quite believe it.

Tengo que cumplir mi promesa. La promesa de dejarla ir. De realmente dejarla ir. Para que podamos seguir los dos.-Adam

It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge," Henry said.

I think I'm kind of getting the concept of closure. It's no big dramatic before-after. It's more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times. - Adam

When I open the door in front of the bus station, he says, "Take care, Cody," in a quiet voice. ...As much as I want to put miles between me and Ben McCallister, now that I'm doing just that, I understand what a relief it's been to share this weight with someone. "Yeah. You too," I tell him. "Have a good life." It's not what I meant to say. It sounds too flippant. But maybe it's the most you can hope for someone.

Why not? Tell me. You owe me this!" She looks at me, square in the eye. Taking aim. And then she pulls the trigger. "Because I hated you." The wind, the noise it all just goes quiet for a second, and I'm left with a dull ringing in my ear, like a after a show, like a after a heart monitor goes to flatline. "Hated me? Why?" "Because you made me stay.

I think we were both aware that we were falling in love. I thought that getting to this part was the challenge. In books and movies, the stories always end when the two people finally have their romantic kiss. The happily-ever-after part is just assumed.

Pero esa es la única puerta que necesita permanecer cerrada.

I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go.

I'm kind of getting the concept of closure. It's no big dramatic before-after. It's more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you're sad, but you can't be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there'll be other vacations, other good times.

The day is ending; it's not coming back.

I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing.

Wish that there was someone I could explain this to. Someone who might understand what I'm feeling. And for one small second, I do imagine the person I could talk to, about finding this door, and losing it. He would understand. But that's one door that needs to stay shut.

La ruptura. Todo el mundo habla de ella como si fuera lo más fácil del mundo. No hay más que desplegar los dedos uno por uno hasta abrir por completo la mano. Pero yo llevo tres años con el puño apretado; rígido de tan cerrado, a punto de no volver a abrirse nunca más

What's done is done and can't be undone. We can only move on from here

When their relationship fizzled out - and he clearly expected it to fizzle out - they would, what? Return to their friendship as if nothing had happened? At least I'll have him in my life.

Wait," she called. She too stood, the chair skidding behind her. I didn't turn fully, but glanced over my shoulder. "Yes?" "What's your name?" she asked. "Eden Black." I paused. "Alien assassin. Don't worry. I will take care of EenLi." Her "thank you" echoed in my ears as the door closed behind me.

It was silly of me to expect [my father] to change or to understand what he had done. So I decided I wasn't obliged to be angry anymore, and I feel very good that we were able to spend time together during the five years before he died.

Never the standout, they are what makes for the continuity, so that after the star either dies (tragedy) or rides off into the sunset (heroic romance, comedy), they are left to clean up and to answer the inevitable final

I'm always relieved when someone delivers a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.