Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.

So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

He always did the leaving. But not this time. She kept walking, and did not look back.

Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived: the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere.

And I am in retirement from love.

Take your records, take you freedom, take your memories, I dont need 'em. And take your cat, and leave my sweater, cause we've got nothing left to weather.

A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and let go?

I remove my wedding rings and put them in the jewelry box. So many others have done this. I am not the only one. I am not the only one. But here, I am the only one.

Look at what you've done, you're losing me is what you've won. Got me planning to go solo

For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.

How well we have learned to let go

This is not what anyone wants to hear, just like somebody who wants to lose weight doesn't want to hear 'diet and exercise,' but I think giving yourself time and abstaining from interaction is the only way to get over somebody.

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

I've had relationships before where you break up, and you think you're going to die, and then you realise you're definitely not going to die, and actually, you're probably better off without them.

I have friends who have lost husbands and have gone off and tried different things. Nothing wrong with that.

A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn't work out. I lost him, and it ruined me. I had to learn to get back on my feet. I used that heartbreak to create something really beautiful.

It's definitely tough to get up and walk away from something you have been a part of for so long. But it's part of life.

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would (hello!) find something else to love.

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

What kind of life am i supposed to have without you?You were the one good thing,the only good thing i ever found.

Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.

We decided that sooner or later you had to learn to live without almost everybody, at least for a while. Even people you didn't think you could live without." p 167 love always found itself again.