“Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
“Once you’d resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle
“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.”
― Tim McGraw
“Things go away to return, brightened for the passage”
― A.R. Ammons, Sphere: The Form of a Motion
“Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.”
― Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
“I hated myself for going, why couldn’t I be the kind of person who stays?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”
― John Green, Paper Towns
“What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion