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“I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“It is so hard to leave — until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.” John Green, Paper Towns

“I don't want just words. If that's all you have for me you'd better go.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake, and perhaps as long as eternity too.” James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“You loved me—then what right had you to leave me?” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“But I don't think I ought to leave my friends like this, after all we have gone through together.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

“If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn’t afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they’re seventeen.” Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost—something's left behind.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don’t tell me to leave.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“You can't just make me different and then leave” John Green, Looking for Alaska

“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.” Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.” Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.” Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.” John Irving, The World According to Garp

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