Emotional Closure Quotes

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

He may be out of my life physically, but he’ll always be a part of me. I can’t let him go even if I tried. Alex took a piece of my heart, but that doesn’t mean my life has to be on hold. I can’t keep running after ghosts.

Saying good-bye on 'Nurse Jackie' was a really big deal, so I'm sure I was keeping myself guarded from ever having to feel anything like that again on another job, especially a death scene.

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.

The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.

Love, life, meaning...over.

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

It'd be really nice to sit down with all the people who have hurt me and tell them all the reasons that they've affected me.

Why didn't he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn't he say 'I love you'?

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

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

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

My relationship with my father still troubles me because it never got resolved, and there was no closure. There was a lot of bitterness, but having written about it, I found that I was able to overcome that bitterness and look at the relationship anew.

I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain. Or they forgive fast in order to get an advantage over the people they forgive. And their instant forgiving only makes things worse... People who have been wronged badly and wounded deeply should give themselves time and space before they forgive... There is a right moment to forgive. We cannot predict it in advance; we can only get ourselves ready for it when it arrives... Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long.

I realized I didn't want there to be anything left unsaid with my mom. I didn't want there to be questions that I still had about who she was and what her life was like. And I didn't want her to have questions about me as an adult.

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

I'm glad Phil Jackson got the rings for Chicago. You traded me away from New York, cool. It's all business; it's all love, whatever. But I'm a grownup now. You not my hero no more.

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

I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all that I was the snake in the grass, the monster in the lake. I wasn't worthy of this sacrifice; I was a liar, a cheat, a thief. And I would have told, except that a part of me was glad. Glad that this would all be over with soon. Baba would dismiss them, there would be some pain, but life would move on. I wanted that, to move on, to forget, to start with a clean slate. I wanted to be able to breathe again.

Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

Executions are not psychological events for the healing of the victims’ families. They are moral events.

No, I don’t live in heartache. I don’t cry myself to sleep or any of that. I am, I tell myself, over it. But I do feel a void, icky as that sounds. And—like it or not—I still think about her every single day.

I love and have respect and admiration for everybody in my past. I don't have any animosity toward anybody.

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.