Garth Stein Quotes

At some point, we all have to let go.

Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I’m kind of getting the concept of closure. It’s no big dramatic before-after. It’s more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you’re sad, but you can’t be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there’ll be other vacations, other good times.

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.

Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.

Things die for a reason, and in Bungle's case, it was a lot of reasons. It was great while it lasted but not something I'd go crawling back to.

Sometimes you have to think about letting people move on.

They're just memories now. Time to write them off.

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

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

Closure. I loathe that word.

No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go.

With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.

I don't really have a problem saying good-bye to things. All things come to an end.

So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.

When something is over, it is over.

It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.

The past is a closed door.

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.

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.

For me, I learned from my father that when it's over, it's over.

It is never a mistake to say good-bye.

Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye

I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.