Quotes About Closure

I think we agree, the past is over.

Our long national nightmare is over.

I don't see her anymore. We don't even go through the motions. Ozren had been right about one thing: some stories just don't have happy endings.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

All is well that ends well.

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

I always read the last page of a book first, so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

longer than it was necessary or productive to do so.

The story was no longer important to tell.

Love can die. It can be killed, no matter how alive it was, it's not invulnerable. Mine's dead. It's dead and it's buried. I just want one thing more, and that's the chance to look him in the face and tell him he's nothing. If I can do that one thing, it'll be enough.

Because dead people don't get angry. They're dead.

The statute of limitations . . . She's put it behind her. Or I hope she has." She'd have put it behind her, Eve thought, but it was always behind you. In a corner, in the dark. Squatting there behind you and chuckling in its throat.

I can't go back, Lane. I'm sorry. I just can't." He fell silent. And then after a long while, he nodded. "All right, but can I ask you for one thing?" No. "Yes." "Just don't hate me anymore. I'm doing plenty of that on my own time.

Not brother. And never again.

When it came to someone else macking on their females, bonded males liked closure. Of the coffin-lid variety.

No» sibilò. Con la voce che gli risuonava nel cranio decise di ascoltare se stesso. Basta. Doveva chiuderla lì. Molto tempo prima aveva perso la testa per quella persona. No c'era motivo di perdere anche l'anima.

people didn't have to be dead to be out of your life.

You made me face something I should have faced a long time ago. I'm grateful. And I should have never asked you to leave. You don't ask someone you to love to walk out of your life

Sometimes it's hard to end things even when you know it's the right thing to do.

The beauty of things must be that they end.

Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.

I was reading stories by Raymond Carver and some of his stuff sort of ended abruptly here and there, where in other short stories that I've read have a bit of an ending, a climax, a twist or something like that.

Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.