Goodbye for Now Quotes

“Who people think they are and what people think they want is not really who they are or what they want.”
― Laurie Frankel, Goodbye for Now

“...ultimately, eventually, we let go. We do this not because we're ready. We do this not because we've mended. We do this not because we've mourned and come to terms and gotten over it and moved on. We never move on. We don't let go so much as lose our grip and fall because remembering is not enough..memory is imperfect. It is full of holes. It is more space than matter, like lace. It is at once sodden with sorrow and desiccated from lack of blood flow, the obvious result of a broken heart. It makes things up in hopeless attempts to comfort itself. It fills fissure with fantasy. It screws shut its eyes and balls up its fists and flings itself to the ground in a kicking, screaming, blind-rage temper tantrum against reality. But mostly,..memory keeps taking on more.”
― Laurie Frankel, Goodbye for Now

“Sometimes when I remember we aren't the same person, it shocks me.”
― Laurie Frankel, Goodbye for Now

“...just to be with you. That's what you do for me. You simply outweigh everything else. That's how love should be, I guess. I guess, that's what love means.”
― Laurie Frankel, Goodbye for Now

“To love is to lose, Sam. Unfortunately, it’s just that simple. Maybe not today but someday. Maybe not when she’s too young and you’re too young, but you see that being old doesn’t help. Maybe not your wife or your girlfriend or your mother, but you see that friends die, too. I could not spare you this any more than I could spare you puberty. It is the inevitable condition of humanity. It is exacerbated by loving but also simply by leaving your front door, by seeing what’s out there in the world, by inventing computer programs that help people. You are afraid of time, Sam. Some sadness has no remedy. Some sadness you can’t make better.” “So what the hell do I do?” “Be sad.” “For how long?” “Forever.” “But then why isn’t everyone walking around miserable all the time?” “Because ice cream still tastes good. And sunny and seventy-five is still a lovely day. And funny movies make you laugh, and work is sometimes fulfilling, and a beer with a friend is nice. And other people love you too.” “And that’s enough?” “There is no enough. You are the paragon of animals, my love. You aspire to such greatness, to miracle, to newness and wonder. And that’s great. I’m so proud of you. But you forgot about the part that’s been around for time immemorial. Love, death, loss. You’ve run up against it. And there’s no getting around or over it. You stop and build your life right there at the base of that wall. But it’s okay. That’s where everyone else is too. Everyone else is either there or on their way. There is no other side, but there’s plenty of space there to build a life and plenty of company. Welcome to the wall, Sam.”
― Laurie Frankel, Goodbye for Now

“Turns out fixing people up is not how we make money. It's failing to fix people up while still giving them hope that soon we might.”
― Laurie Frankel, Goodbye for Now

“Feeling loved = being loved. That's all.”
― Laurie Frankel, Goodbye for Now

“They don't say what they mean."
"No one says what they mean."
"No one says what they mean all the time. Most people say what they mean sometimes. Usually."
"Teenagers done know what they mean.”
― Laurie Frankel, Goodbye for Now

“Some sadness has no remedy. Some sadness you can’t make better.”
― Laurie Frankel, Goodbye for Now

“Ce anume ne lipsește de la cei dragi pe care îi cunoaștem atât de bine,încât am putea să terminăm frazele în locul lor și să gândim gândurile lor negândite?”
― Laurie Frankel, Goodbye for Now

“This is what Grandma was worried about, you know.'

'Me eating a whole chocolate cake practically all by myself in a single sitting?'

'You falling in love with a computer geek. Sure, they have good stock options and smokin' hot bods, but what about that dark side of genius that reanimates the dead?”
― Laurie Frankel, Goodbye for Now

“. . . there was nothing yet to fear, and so he passed it off as joy, as heart-pounding, pulse-quaking joy. Not as a premonition. Not as the moment to grab her hand and turn and run.”
― Laurie Frankel, Goodbye for Now

“Sam rocked backwards and felt all the breath leave his body. Sam felt all his breath leave the room, the apartment, the building. the city. Sam felt all his breath leave the world, the night, and travel up to the stars where it turned to ice and stretched atom-thin into every corner of the galaxy. Then it retracted, gathering up all the black world, and wound its way back through interstellar space and dark matter and the secrets of infinity, back into the earth's orbit, back into his night in his city, back into his very lungs. It was okay. He was just trying to help, to ease woes and mend hearts and cool seared souls, to guide the bereaved out of the land of the lost, to make the mourning a little less lonesome. He was forgiven.”
― Laurie Frankel, Goodbye for Now

“So the intent was clearly focused: friendship, laughter, food.”
― Laurie Frankel, Goodbye for Now

“He knew what people wanted in a mate. All of them. Every one. So far as Sam could tell they may have found it in the damnedest places but everyone wanted the same things in a partner. Kind. Funny. Hot. Fun. Smart. And totally in love.”
― Laurie Frankel, Goodbye for Now

“It's nice when people have needs you can meet.”
― Laurie Frankel, Goodbye for Now

“Никой не публикува статуси като: "Детето ми ме влудява и се държи отвратително". Никой не бърза да уведоми приятелите си, че децата му удрят,хапят и хвърлят бисквити на пода. Хората си говорят за времето, обсъждат политическите скандали, резултатите от спортни състезания или промоциите в магазина, но избягват да приказват лоши неща за децата си, дори и когато те го заслужават.”
― Laurie Frankel, Goodbye for Now