Jim Goad Quotes

His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed. He's letting me go. I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward to stop me. A lot of you cared, just not enough. And that...that is what i needed to find out. And I did find out. And I'm sorry.

It's too late and it's too bad, don't think of me.

I never look at things again once they're done.

For me, once I've worked on something and it's finished, it's like an ex-boyfriend: you don't go back to them.

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.

As I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now, too late for everything. I would not be given a second chance. In the hours when I woke, I have to tell you that this struck me almost with relief.

People were asking me how I'd feel when it all ends, on the first movie [of The Twilight Saga], and I don't think I've ever felt more completely bewildered knowing that I only have a month of Twilight stuff left to do.

Closure. I loathe that word.

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.

Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.

I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.

She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.

When it's over it's over. No questions, no tears, no farewell kisses.

It is nice when things end. That is what stories do - they end. It is hard to write endings and it is hard to come to the end of things, but I think when it is done right, it is a very satisfying way to appreciate something.

If I'm not the one thing you can't stand to lose, If I'm not that arrow to the heart of you, If you don't get drunk on my kiss, If you think you can do better than this then I guess we're done. Let's not drag this on, Consider me gone.

I want to be done, and actually, go "I had a good run. No regrets. I'm ready to step aside."

Don't think twice, it's alright.

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!

I'm not much of a revenge person, because I think when you start with revenge it cheapens what you've been through.

We haven't been on the same page in years. It is what it is. Sometimes that match burns out. So, no, I don't feel bad about it. It's good. I'm grateful for everything we have done throughout our careers and if there's nothing else to put out, then there's nothing to put out. I'm constantly writing and working. It doesn't stop there.