Sarah Dessen Quotes

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.

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.

And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person.

At some point, we all have to let go.

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.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

He's got to let go of you sometime.

Life must go on; I forget just why.

Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

Don't think twice, it's alright.

I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.

Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.

I don't suffer of anything that I've lost.

It's never nice to lose someone close to you; unfortunately, life goes on, and we have to make peace with it and move on.

Sometimes you have to think about letting people move on.

I made peace with 'Tevar' not doing well and moved on.

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on.

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give... Win or lose the game is finished. It's over. It's time to forget and prepare for the next one.

We had a good run, and now it’s over; what’s wrong with that?

You don't have to move on to let go.

If that person doesn't want to be in your life, just let him or her leave.

Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.

I know you loved her, but it's okay to let it go now. You know that, don't you? You've got to be able to let it go.