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"I know—better than anyone—that once someone’s made up their mind to leave you, there’s nothing you can do to make them stay."

—Terra Elan McVoy, Being Friends with Boys

"Sometimes moving on takes effort. Sometimes moving on is harder than it looks."

—Simone Elkeles, Return to Paradise

"I was waiting for you―for years. I didn’t live. I just waited for you to come back."

—Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

"There was a time when receiving even the most insignificant message from you would have been simply incredible—when it would have told me that, no matter what was happening, I still crossed your mind. Because as we all know, silence is the most brutal statement one can make. Screaming about how much you hated me, well, it would have been tolerable. Hate and love are two sides of the same coin; the true opposite of love is apathy. And if you had screamed, I would have known that regardless of how hard you tried to convey your disdain for me, I still meant enough to you to write a few words, to make your sentiments known. But you remained silent."

—Chelsea Fagan

"Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that’s the same as rejecting them."

—Henning Mankell, The White Lioness

"As much as it sucks, you need to force yourself to remember your very worst times together, his most irritating habits, and the hard truth that not only can he live without you…but he’d rather."

—Greg Behrendt, It’s Called a Breakup Because It’s Broken

"And he left. I watched him walk out—he didn’t say goodbye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that."

—Sara Zarr, Sweethearts

"That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love—that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, is this the same person I lost?"

—Amy Tan, The Kitchen God’s Wife