“Children and one’s social inferiors never know when to say good-bye. One has to say it for them.”

“It's always easier to say good-bye when you know it's just a prelude to hello.”

“I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.”

“A sort of good-bye without saying good-bye," he said. "It is a reference to a passage in the Bible. 'And Mizpah, for he said, the Lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from another.”

“The weird thing about saying good-bye is that it never gets easier.”

“Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.”

“It was time to say good-bye. Jack sent.”

“All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.”

“They say money talks, but all mine ever says is 'good-bye sucker.”

“It’s not the parting or the absence that’s sad. You love them, and that’s why saying good-bye breaks your heart.”