"To know how to say goodbye requires a delicacy that few truly master. It is not merely an act of parting, but a discreet form of elegy an art of leaving without wounding, of severing ties without erasing what came before. To say goodbye is to acknowledge a passage, to honor what was without clinging to it unreasonably. It is neither forgetfulness nor renunciation, but rather a final gesture of tenderness, almost poetic toward the person or thing one is leaving behind. It demands a gentle lucidity, an emotional tact that borders on grace. To learn how to say goodbye is, in the end, to learn how to love without possessing, and to depart without fleeing."