I never thought anything like that would have gone on.

Change was everywhere. People were gone, or changed, and that was almost like being gone.

— John Steinbeck

“He thought about how fire is like rust. Using oxygen to swallow up the world.”

— Anonymous

I thought I was like your sister... Since when did you decide I'll just ditch her?

— Anonymous

“The thought, would she like me if I weren't me, is an impossible thought. It folds in upon itself. But what I mean is…

— John Green

“It was like that afore you got here, it's like that now, and it's going to be like that when you and me are…

— David Halberstam

Just like that. Gone forever. They will not grow old together. They will never live on a beach by the sea, their hair turned…

— Pete Hamill

“Just like that, he's gone. Things can change so quickly. One second you're in the present, the next you're remembering the past.”

— Janet Gurtler

“Her fear was no longer the balm for his soul. Just like that, it was gone.”

— V. Theia

People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.

— Taylor Swift

“There is no end to the story. Isn’t it amazing that something is really, really important one moment, and then minutes later it has…

— Art Hochberg

“Everything that makes the world like it is now will be gone. We'll have new rules and new ways of living. Maybe there'll be…

— Shirley Jackson

And just like that...he was gone...

— Eric Nickel

I have a theory that the only way you can be any good is if the camera likes you. If the camera doesn't like…

— Howard Hawks

“There's the one and only T.C. There was nobody like me before, and there ain't gonna be anybody like me after I'm gone...”

— Truman Capote

“I wondered if this was the way old crushes died, with a whimper, slowly, and then, just like that—gone.”

— Jenny Han