Julianna Baggott Quotes

In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.

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

It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

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

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away

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.

To get something you must give something away. To hold something you must give something away. To love something you must give something away.

Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.

Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it's the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open.

Everything we love goes. So to be able to grieve that loss, to let go, to have that grief be absolutely full, is the only way to have our heart be full and open.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

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

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

You don't have to give up to let go

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.

Love means knowing when to let go.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.