"if you're afriad of everyone leaving you, what do you do?"

"make them stay"

"and if you can't do that or don't know how to?"

Ellie shrugged. "i don't know"

'yes, you do. in fact, you've done it. you leave first,"Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away."

-'PLAIN TRUTH', jodi picoult