“Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love — that person keeps changing. And later you wonder.. is this the same person I lost?”— Amy Tan, amazon.com
“I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.”— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com
“You think there will be a time to say goodbye, but people have often gone before you know about it. And I don't just mean the dying.”— Rachel Joyce, amazon.com
“I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn’t.”— Alexandra Adornetto, amazon.com
“If you're gonna leave, I wish you'd just leave. Why do you keep coming back if you're not going to stay? Because even when you're gone, you're never really gone... I won't get over it if you keep coming back.”— Brodi Ashton, amazon.com
“You know when you think you know someone? More than anyone in the world? You know you know them, because you've seen them, like, for real. And then you reach out, and suddenly they are just... gone. You though you belonged together. You thought they were yours, but they're not. You want to protect t…”— Ava Dellaira, amazon.com
“I felt her absence. It was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. You wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.”— James Dashner, amazon.com
“You eventually erase her contact info from your phone but not the pictures you took of her in bed while she was naked and asleep, never those.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“You have to live the rest of your life knowing you're going to die someday and disappear forever.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“It’s so much easier to walk away than it is to have to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? The blueberries? The whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“Often men fail to realize what they have until it is gone and it’s your job to make him realize what he’s lost.”— Leslie Braswell, amazon.com