Quote by L.J. Shen

“Maybe I just left it too late, and things changed too much for us to go back to where we were.”

— Kate le Vann

“It seemed I was torn; I wanted my goodbye, and I didn't. I wanted him to make me stay, and I wanted to go.”

— Sam Mariano

“I wanted it to remain, that he might actually like me, and that he liked me in just the way I liked him.”

— André Aciman

“He asked me when I planned to come back. Always, I said.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“I thought if I moved away, I could move away from all of it, but the memories were still with me. The fact that…

— Eileen Cook

“I hated that I felt jealous. Hated it. It's not like I'd been on my own waiting for him, just like he hadn't been…

— Megan Miranda

“This is your life now?” “Guess so.” “Huh,” I said, summing up the situation perfectly. “Why don’t you go back to LA?” Blue eyes…

— Kylie Scott

“I still want you. But not while you’re his. Not like this, not like last night.”

— S.C. Stephens

“Wouldn't it be a waste to not try and stay with the one I liked?”

— Cara McKenna

“I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody asked me to stay.”

— Joan Didion

“When was the last time we talked? Before we moved? Even now, when we had time to talk, he walked off to make phone…

— C.L. Stone

“He left. And I've realized that when someone wants to leave, you let him go.”

— Sarah Jio