David Nicholls Quotes

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.

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

Take what you have learned, and move on.

But sometimes there’s nothing left to do but move on.

You have to accept the way things are before you can move on.

If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

I think when a relationship doesn't work in your life, it doesn't mean that your life is over.

The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.

When faced by any loss, there’s no point in trying to recover what has been, it’s best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.

Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.

We're never gonna move forward if we can't let go of things, especially things that don't happen to people today.

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

I have definitely been in experiences where my girlfriends have outgrown me and that's ok and I think that I should be inspired by that to know that it's time to move on - it's time to evolve as well and I think that should be inspirational to other people. They shouldn't feel stifled and feel like oh we can't grow up, we can't move on - change is a good thing.

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

I know it's hard to let go of people that have been with you forever. Sometimes it's time to call it a day.

For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the idea go. She hits bottom. She dwells in the muck for several months, not depressed exactly, but involved in a mourning that at first she thinks is for Ray but soon realizes is for the loss of her old self.

No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

I thought I knew who you were, but I see now you were a lesson to learn, and all I am to you now is a bridge that’s been burned.

There just comes a time when it's so clear that moving on is the best decision.

You learn to move on without the people you love.

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?

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.