Ellen Hopkins Quotes

If you loved someone, really loved them, would you let them go?

No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to say good-bye.

If you love someone and they want to leave, you help them pack. That's love

to love means to realize there is a time to let the beloved one go

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.

I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.

Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.

Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.

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

Yet leave me not; yet, if thou wilt, be free; love me no more, but love my love of thee.

In the end, I'd loved him enough to let go. From afar, I would love him forever.

Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?

You shall leave everything you love.

I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

Love means knowing when to let go.

When somebody leaves this plane—or, if you like, goes into another room—those left behind sometimes try and stop loving—but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you’re ruined.

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.

In love, you pay as you leave.

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.

Despite what I feel for Peeta, this is when I accept deep down that he'll never come back to me. Or i'll never go back to him. I'll die for my trouble. And he'll die insane and hating me.

I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.