Quotes About Closure

Later many people would say that if the schools had been closed right away, lives might have been saved. But at the time people argued that you couldn't just close the schools, because so many parents worked. If they had to stay home to take care of their kids, a lot of them would lose income, maybe even their jobs. Not to mention that businesses were already shorthanded because of all the employees out sick. Closing the schools might just make things worse.

One day we were planning our future, she said, the next day he was gone. At first I thought I owed it to him to do everything possible to try to understand. But I came to believe this was wrong. He had chosen silence. His death was a mystery. In the end I decided I should leave him his silence. His mystery.

the absolute could be enclosed within the last moments of a dying person.

It is appalling not to be there to console someone for the pain you cause by leaving . . .

Sir Richard Glendale lifted the fatal paper, read it, and saying, 'Now all is indeed over,' handed it to Maxwell, who said aloud, 'Black Colin Campbell...

The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.

He so did not sit down and have a proper talk with her. I know it. He probably sent her a brief text, saying, Over. Sam.

You know what Hans told me last week? she says as I open the door of my fitting room. He told me to write down a list of everything I wanted to say about that women-and then tear it up. He said I'd feel a sense of freedom. Oh right, I say interestedly. So what happened? I wrote it all down, says Laurel. And then I mailed it to her!

The trouble with me is, I can't let things go.

People move on. Friendship end.

I regret a lot of things, like believing that Joe and I would have grandchildren together one day. But here's the truth: I don't want to feel it. I'm tired of feeling it. I need my outer protective layers to click shut, quickly.

O god— all come true, all burst to light! O light—now let me look my last on you!

A light tip of the scales can put old bones to rest.

Every time you see him, you only make yourself vulnerable to further heartache. Do you really need further proof that he's getting on with his life without you?

Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

This was real. And it was me. I had lived that life, and I had died that death. I was staring at the very end of me.

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

I feel life I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to live the past behind.

Even though I have so many things to figure out, I'm very much at peace. I don't feel like I'm closing the chapter on this phase of life - I feel like I'm closing the book and starting a new one.

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.

You rarely get closure when you leave something unknown.

I try to avoid stories that end with...and he was never seen again.

Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.

There were never going to be any happy ending for me. I know that now. But that is all right. That is all right.