Marie Lu Quotes

The end of anything is not fun because there's a nostalgia to it and everything else. Even the end of a bad relationship can feel so, so, so sad.

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

My happiest moment is the day they call wrap and I'm free. I'm not looking back.

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.

I was very pleased with the way that the show ended creatively and personally. It just feels like we've completed the piece. And now to be able to step back a little bit and look at it from beginning to end, I feel good about the complete story that is 'Battlestar Galactica.'

Leaving Chelsea was sad, but naturally everything has to come to an end.

Once you're done with the film, it's almost like empty nest syndrome: your kid has moved out of the house.

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

I don't miss it. I'm glad it happened, but I don't miss it.

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.

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.

Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that is too grown-up for you. Like whiskey and voting, it is a dangerous and heady business, as heavy as years. If I could keep your little tribe together forever, I would. I do so want to be generous. But some stories sprout bright vines that tendril off beyond our sight, carrying the folk we love best with them, and if I knew how to accept that with grace, I would share the secret.

It wasn't that I forgot Hanna. But at a certain point the memory of her stopped accompanying me wherever I went. She stayed behind, the way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station. It's there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. But why should you?

[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.

I get it now. I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go.

I don't think you can ever return, really.

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.

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

You keep waiting for the heaviness to leave you. You keep waiting for the moment you never think about the ex again. It doesn't come.

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.

Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye

Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.