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Quotes About Closure

Too late to apologize, I've already forgiven you.
~ Robin Hobb
I think it's possible to realize you love someone as deeply as you know how to love and not end up spending the rest of your life with him.
~ Robin Jones Gunn
We'll get everything straightened out. This has gone on long enough—we have to bring it to a close." She was quiet for a long moment before she said, "We?" He gave her shoulders a squeeze. "Come on, don't you feel like we're in this together? I want to help, Ellie. You got screwed, by Arnie, by the court, all around. You don't deserve this." She
~ Robyn Carr
We can walk his last steps. We can retrieve his bones to be laid to rest next to his mother's. But we'll still never know everything that happened to Tim. Sooner or later, his father and his friends will have to come to terms with that. That the quality of their future sleep won't be determined by a visit to his grave, but by their ability to let go.
~ Lisa Gardner
People only stay in your life if they want to. So often, they just go away. And there's really nothing you can do.
~ Lisa Unger
All she needed now was a happy ending.
~ Lisi Harrison
All that time I thought she was my future, I was wrong. She wasn't my future at all. She was the door to my future. But I'm through that door now, and ready to close it behind me.
~ Liz Kessler
There are only three weeks left, Matty. After the border closes it will be too late. She won't be allowed to come. You must bring her here before that happens. If you don't, Matty, I will never see her again. It always seems strange to me when you say 'see.' The blind man smiled. I see in my heart, Matty.
~ Lois Lowry
There were more than usual this time. "It's a big group," Matty whispered to the blind man. "Yes, I can hear that it is. I wonder if somehow they have begun to hear rumors that we may close.
~ Lois Lowry
it closed, created a clasp from willow twigs that he'd soaked to soften and
~ Lois Lowry
The Hirsch family had gone somewhere. Why else would they close the shop?
~ Lois Lowry
All happy endings are ultimately an illusion created by stopping short.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Amber was past tense. We were covering her inanimate face in the white sheet of was.
~ Lorrie Moore
and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.
~ Louisa May Alcott
And now, having endeavoured to suit everyone by many weddings, few deaths, and as much prosperity as the eternal fitness of things will permit, let the music stop, the lights die out, and the curtain fall for ever on the March family.
~ Louisa May Alcott
as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the workaday world again.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Let the music stop, the lights die out, and the curtain fall for ever on the March family
~ Louisa May Alcott
Morgan decided that it was hopelessly insolvent and had to be shut.
~ Ron Chernow
The more tenuous the ties that hold us together, the easier it is to say goodbye. [Julia, 'Harbour of Love']
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
towards Irma, seemingly burning or giving away every last item that had belonged to him?
~ Rose Tremain
It's alright now...I was able to see you...One last time...- Kagura
~ Rumiko Takahashi
Photographs of them alive and smiling would have made me cry and fall down and beat the earth with my fists; their actual dead faces only sealed me off from myself.
~ Russell Banks
I discovered that endings have their own odd thrill. In the mania of the moment, it's possible to forget what you are losing.
~ Ruth Reichl
We should get over it.
~ Ruth Rendell