Quotes About Closure

But he had not been able to go to her. That was no longer an option in his life.

She was achingly conscious, as he escorted her as usual to the door of her room, that this was the last time she would be with him like this.

And he had felt the need to see her again, to put a definite end to something that had never ended.

He was fully aware that it was already too late for simple friendship between them.

He would be the very last person she would want to see during the rest of her lifetime.

Now it had been done. And everything was in the past.

It is as well for him, he said, that he is already dead. He would suffer this night if he were still alive.

She did not have the willpower to send him through that door, knowing that he might never come through it again, or through any of the doors into her life.

In a few more days, Christina thought . . . this would all be over . . . She would try to recall how he had looked, how he had sounded, what he had said. He would be gone.

Los adioses, por dolorosos que sean, deben decirse. Al final de cada historia hay que escribir la palabra «Fin»

This was surely the worst summer of her life. She was very thankful that it was almost at an end.

She had given him all she had to give. She would not feel guilty for that.

A great deal of good had happened. The past had been explained and forgiven. The bitterness of years had been purged. There could be some peace now for two people because he had come home.

Had he done the right thing to let her go without a word or a letter? Was he right to leave it so, to disappear from her life?

No, he decided . . . he surely could not have believed for one single moment that it really was all finished between them.

We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.

For the more haunted among us, only looking back at the past can permit it finally to become past.

Human saliva contains histatins, which speed wound closure independent of their antibacterial action.

I shut my eyes a long time ago. The things I seek lie only in darkness.

Take a moment to completely understand that yesterday is over, last year is over, the last minute is over - the past is the past and cannot change.

Emily interrupted. Don, she said. would you mind going home? He pulled his soft hat violently down over his forehead. I suppose you think that I'm a cad. I just don't think about you. Good-by, Emily said, and closed the door firmly behind him.

Last things were so strange. Most people had no control over of what their last acts would be.

Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.

Hello, Alice, Stevie said. It'd okay. It's over.