Suzanne Collins Quotes

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.

[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

It's so hard saying goodbye... it's hard saying good bye to all the things that one has held dear for weeks, months, sometimes years.

This is a long goodbye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

Moving on is easy what your leaving behind is what makes it hard.

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.

I'm bad at letting go of things.

Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.

I've become impossible, holding on to when everything seemed to matter more.

It's so hard getting rid of something that means something to you, as many of the pieces on our site do for me.

I've had friendships and relationships in the past where things weren't working out for either of us, but I still found it really hard to let go.

I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.

There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?

Your trying to take them away from me, and I can't let you do that.I'm not ready to let go." "Exactly what am I taking away?" "My family." "Brenna..." She wouldn't let him continue. "You are trying to take them away, aren't you? And if you succeed, what will I have left?" "Me.

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ... it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.

I guess that's what saying good-bye is always like--like jumping off an edge. The worst part is making the choice to do it. Once you're in the air, there's nothing you can do but let go.

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.

I can't believe that I would keep, keep you from flying And I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.

Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldn’t bear to think of him loving her less.

It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadn’t held it tighter when you had it every day.

I lost you once, I think I can do it again.