Quotes About Closure

But if love had to die, I wanted it to die quickly. It was as though our love were a small creature caught in a trap and bleeding to death: I had to shut my eyes and wring its neck.

In her view when a thing was done, it was done: remorse died with the act.

Whew,' he said, 'I'm glad that's over, Thomas. I've been feeling awfully bad about it.' It was only too evident that he no longer did.

This is the end of our sentence

There was no closure to be had, just jail time in my head. What's he doing? What's he thinking? Does he still love me? Does he love her more? Is he thinking that he made a mistake? It doesn't matter, because the cold hard truth was that he didn't love me enough to want to be with me. It took me a while, but I ultimately realized that I had to physically separate myself from all the things that were keeping me stuck inside my obsessive mind.

What sucks even more is getting hung up on the what is he thinking and feeling? shit. Does he miss me as much as I miss him? No. If he did, you'd know it by his actions. Is he seeing someone else? Maybe. Probably. Or at least he's planning on it. Again-it sucks, but if you get real about it you'll realize that knowing the answers to these questions still doesn't change the fact that your relationship didn't make the cut.

Just remember this. Every man you have ever dated who has said he doesn't want to get married or doesn't believe in marriages, or has issues with marriage, will, rest assured, someday be married. It just will never be with you. Because he's really not saying he doesn't want to get married. He's saying he doesn't want to get married to you.

All partnerships fail in the end, just like marriages. The only life after death any human being will ever know is staying in a marriage or a partnership after it's over. And that's not life—it's living death.

Asking you...it was just a way of closing a door on it. It's just something I had to ask.

During the Second World War, the Cote d'Azur as a holiday destination closed down, but once the Allies had liberated the coast in 1944, the Riviera's infrastructure grew rapidly.

I gave my last concert in 1976. For 32 years, I had given everything I had. I wanted to stop. My last big debut was in Russia in 1973. After I retired, I didn't have to worry about going out in bad weather. I could stay up late.

Now the Tombs, like the name says, are so horrible that they had to close it down. Today it doesn't exist and people go in the electric chair and all that.

Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight.

I'd like to have all of my losses back. But it's too late for that.

I don't look back in hindsight. It's too late.

I knew we would eventually get back together, but I don't think any of us really knew when it was going to happen. It had to be a situation where all four of us felt like it was time. It's just too personal and too big, with too much history, to do any other way.

I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.

I must end it. There is no hope. I will be at peace. No one had anything to do with it. My decision totally.

Not that it mattered. The people who were dead were still dead.

All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to my proper Christian beheading and burial.

How do you end a story that's not yours? Add another sentence where there is a pause? Infiltrate the story with a comma when really there should have been a period? Punctuate with an exclamation point where a period would have sufficed? What if you kill something breathing and breathe life into something the author wanted to eliminate? How do you get inside the mind of a person who isn't there? Fill the shoes of someone who will never again fill his own?

The pages of life that had already been turned could not be opened again.

We don't always get the answers we want, sometimes a simple look can haunt us enough to know some ghosts need their rest.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?