928 Quotes About Moving-on

How many boys like him were out there in the ether, holding on to their big brothers and sisters who were still alive? How many husbands were floating between life and death, clinging to their wives in this world? And how may millions and millions of people were there in the world like Charlie who wouldn't let go of their loved ones when they're gone?

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

You loved him enough to let him leave… Now you need to love yourself enough to let him go.

I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want. Then you realize that the people you have known forever don't see things the way you do and so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.

What are you going to do? she asks. Not dwell. Move forward. What are you really going to do? Stare at spoons.

It's nobody's fault. It's not my fault. I didn't do anything wrong, I know that now. It's just the way it is. Sometimes things just don't work out. You and me, we worked for the amount of time that we worked, then we didn't anymore. We can't go back, and frankly, I can't see what we can be. I've changed.

I'd been holding my breath all that time and as soon as she turned, I let it out. My heart twisted again and for a moment I panicked. I wanted to call her back, take it back. I wanted to go to Blake, take him back. Live the way we had always lived together. But then I remembered, habit.

You miss a lot of a person’s life when you don’t keep in touch. Maybe that’s the point.

And sometimes memories hurt because I knew they could never be anything more.