Quote by Laila Ibrahim

“He had no choice, he had told her, and then he left, choosing.”

— George R.R. Martin

“She had lost him. Lost him because she'd let him go. And she could not allow herself to regret that decision.”

— Harriet Evans

“But each time she didn’t leave, she gave him tacit permission to do it again. She knew this. She was an educated woman with…

— Liane Moriarty

“If he only knew how she refuse to let him go even when he was gone ~”

— Tanya Gambhir

“She wanted that lifetime. She would never leave him,and even better, he would never let her go.”

— Michele Sinclair

“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

“Years later she finally realized what he’d been doing by making her wait so long. He’d given her a reason to leave him. A…

— Tiffany Reisz

“He wanted to shout, telling her to stop. He wanted to tell her that he could stay, that he wanted to stay, that if…

— Nicolas Sparks

“It was the reason he had survived. It was the ordinary way of saying she would refuse all other men. Only you. Come back.”

— Ian McEwan

“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.”

— Alain de Botton

“Yes, he was leaving, but he'd told her repeatedly that they would find a way to make it work. and yes, it was true…

— Nicolas Sparks