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“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
“Do you know what pain is, Cammie? Its thebodys physical response to imminent harm.It is the minds way of telling us to move ourhand off the stove or let go of the brokenglass.”
“A sad lesson that was mine to learn is that you can't lose what was never truly yours. Nor can you hold to things that simply do not wish to be held.”
“Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.”
“Remember, it is ultimately your mind which makes anything attractive or unattractive. It is you who is the deciding factor.”
“They always come back, but we dont always answer.”
“It wasnt good. It was good in the beginning and I held on to that.”
“Some people youre not meant to get over.”
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
“I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. I also know that if we are to live ourselves there comes a point at which we must relinquish the d...”
“But the wind always swept my words away like cloud shadows, as if it mattered more that I said them, than who heard them.”
“To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat itits over. It can hurt you no more.”
“You will say good-bye for all the right reasons. You're tired of living in wait for his apocalypse. You have your own fight on your hands, and though it's no bigger or more noble than his, it will ...”
“You're asking yourself if you will ever get over it. - I don't believe we ever do. Getting over something implies you floated on past the pain, blew kisses, and waved goodbye while leaping to freed...”
“Did I ever tell you about the day I finally let go of him? That day that led me to you?”
“Life grows too quickly it quickly turns into memories.”
“The person who doesn't value you is blocking you from the one who will. Let them go.”
“When one embraces a moment of rapture from the past, either by trying to reclaim it or by refusing to let it go, how can its brightness not tarnish, turn grey with longing and sorrow, until the wil...”
“[W]hen you try too hard to hold on to something, you break it. Sometimes, we need to let go so that other people can have their chance at the magic.”
“Have you ever lost someone close to you? Someone who is at the core of your universe, the hero of all your stories...when that happens, it isnt just the loss of one life, its the loss of two lives ...”
