29 quotes found
“There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”
“Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leavi...”
“I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you.”
“I don't understand how I can know so little about love and how it works. How I can be so bad at it when it's all I've ever wanted.All I've ever known is about leaving or being left.”
“...and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.”
“They leave to test the waters but fail to realize the waters are full of rapids.”
“Someone who lives always with a plane schedule in the drawer lives on a slightly different calendar.”
“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere.”
“How many troubles (oopadhi) should you keep? Do not invite those that do not come and don't stop the ones that are leaving.”
“Jehanne said that it would always be like this. That I would always be young and beautiful in her memory, and she in mine. That I would never grow resentful, never be tempted to betray her. That sh...”
“The reason for leaving sometimes is to return. Simply to return.”
“The act of you leaving was just the full stop at the end of a terrible sentence. Fact is, I lost you long before you ever left.”
“Blue jeans, white shirtWalked into the room you know you made my eyes burnIt was like, James Dean, for sureYou're so fresh to death and sick as ca-cancerYou were sorta punk rock, I grew up on hip h...”
“He was not in the house. He did not come back that night. Days went by, and at last she understood that he would not return at all.”
“Once the tugboat takes you out to the ocean liner, you got to get all the way on board. Can't straddle both decks.”
“Leaving is an act that cannot be undone.”
“Now, bring me that horizon.”
“LeavingHe stood backlitby windows full of winter,a shade thrown over his face.What a waste, I thought.What relief.”
“You are not property. If you choose to leave, no one will stop you.”
“White in the moon the long road lies,The moon stands blank above;White in the moon the long road liesThat leads me from my love.Still hangs the hedge without a gust,Still, still the shadows stay:My...”
