Quotes About Closure

Unfelt feelings don't cease to exist; they stay bottled up in our minds and our bodies. They dissipate when given expression. A heart can break only if it is closed—if it remains open there is nothing to break.

I never crush a relationship dead, I once boasted. Meaning: I always leave something in case I want to pick it up later.)

A conclusion is the place you get to when you're tired of thinking.

they would not be allowed to mourn him when he passed, either. They were just supposed to watch quietly with the rest of the witnesses when the warden pulled the black curtain back and the crowd outside the prison gates began to cheer. . . .

Good-bye, Harry, wherever you may be … never has it been more clear to me that the part of my life which you occupied is over forever … I could not be further away from you if I were on the moon … how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.

There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

I want to be happy. To finally just let the past slip away into the night.

Good," I said. "And we will do the same. But I miss him. I miss him like I miss Mother. Of course we'll honor their memory, and of course their souls have gone on to new lives, but I hadn't finished talking to them in this life." I knew what death meant now. It was conversations cut off.

I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the dead, let them go, keep them dead.

I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.

Yes! Oh, yes! Of course I forgive you! And I love you, Marnie. I shall never forget you, ever!

All the best stories end with a clinch.

This whole situation is like a great big zit that needs popping," she continued. "The damage is already done—your face looks like shit and no concealer's gonna cover it. You might as well squeeze hard and get your money shot. You'll both feel better afterward.

Si quieres olvidarme date prisa, no me consuela tu amistad, tu duda...

If you have reasons for not coming back, I don't want to know them. I just want you to come back anyway

We should have a funeral," he said. Pan held his hands clasped in a tent on his lap, and he bowed his head. He seemed to be trying to recall something, and it was a long time before he finally said, "Our Father. Our Father. Our Father. Amen." Then he leaned back, and his face was blank again. He smiled, all white teeth. "There.

Forget him. Forget him.

The dead can forgive. The dead can be forgiven. The rest of us have better things to do. (Monza Murcatto)

I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever?

I'm sorry it didn't work out," Linda says. Florida smiles at the girl. "Everything ends," she says. "That's nothing to be sad about. What matters is what starts in that moment.

But even a day out of heaven has to end.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

But now you can't find me or reach me or hurt me ever again and once I tell the words I am going to kick you off my porch and learn to breathe again.

I've got no more tears or explanations.