“The problem with endings in real life is they tend to be protracted dwindles, not a dynamic denouement …
It’s people moving on and Christmas cards that quit showing up in your mailbox … that’s how most relationships end most of the time.”

“T.S. Eliot nailed it with the last stanza of The Hollow Men:”

  This is the way the world ends
  This is the way the world ends
  This is the way the world ends
  Not with a bang but a whimper.

– Tom Grimes, Amarillo, Texas