{"quotes":[{"text":"Which was just well: goodbyes had never been my strong suit anyway, and lately my life had felt like an unbroken series of them. Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.","author":"Ransom Riggs","tags":["goodbye","goodbyes","hurt","life","love"],"id":30656,"author_id":"Ransom+Riggs"},{"text":"When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["beginnings","choices","doors","endings","faith","future","giving-up","goals","god-s-plan","goodbyes","hope","letting-go","love","moving-on","plans","regret","sorrow"],"id":32071,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["friendship","goodbyes"],"id":43509,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing.","author":"Ashly Lorenzana","tags":["acceptance","difficulty","goodbyes","life","love","people","realization","relationships"],"id":53754,"author_id":"Ashly+Lorenzana"},{"text":"Words, Kaden. Only lost unsaid words that added up to good-bye.","author":"Mary E. Pearson","tags":["break-up","break-ups","good-bye","good-byes","goodbye","goodbyes","heartbreak","love","relationship","relationships"],"id":72063,"author_id":"Mary+E.+Pearson"},{"text":"Nobody lives forever, nobody stays young long enough. My past seemed like so much excess baggage, my future a series of long goodbyes, my present an empty flask, the last good drink already bitter on my tongue.","author":"James Crumley","tags":["baggage","bitter","bitterness","drink","empty","forever","future","goodbye","goodbyes","last","life","live","long","nobody","past","present","young","youth"],"id":82600,"author_id":"James+Crumley"},{"text":"I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reasonBringing something we must learnAnd we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.","author":"Stephen Schwartz","tags":["broadway","for-good","friendship","goodbyes","musicals","parting","wicked"],"id":84796,"author_id":"Stephen+Schwartz"},{"text":"It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go...","author":"Brock Thoene","tags":["farewell","goodbyes","sadness","truths"],"id":85363,"author_id":"Brock+Thoene"},{"text":"Sometimes saying 'goodbye' may be the best thing to say to someone!","author":"Avijeet Das","tags":["goodbye-girl","goodbyes","life-philosophy","life-and-sayings","someone-to-lean-on","writers-life","writers-on-writing","writers"],"id":86020,"author_id":"Avijeet+Das"},{"text":"It takes courage to say goodbye. To stare at a thing lost and know it is gone forever. Some tears are iron forged.","author":"Jay Kristoff","tags":["acceptance","goodbyes"],"id":91883,"author_id":"Jay+Kristoff"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":64,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}