Mariel

“Goodbye," she said.
When I didn't say it back, she rested her hand on the top of my head. The weight was strange and gentle. "I love you," she said. "And when I tell you goodbye, I don't mean forever or for long. Just that I'm going home now, and so are you.”
― Brenna Yovanoff, The Replacement

“There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye.”
― Jeff thomas

“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.”
― Joseph Stalin