Quotes About Parting

We all have to find our own ways to say goodbye. (161)

And she was just leaving. (Xedrix) Not yet, I'm not. (Aimee) Yes, you are. Adios. There's the door. Doorknob twists to the left. The hinges open in. You should use them. Keep them working. Keep you breathing. (Xedrix)

Vane looked back at her one last time, knowing he would never see her again. She was so beautiful there with large, amber eyes set in the pale face of a goddess. There was something about her that reminded him of a Rubens angel. She was ethereal and lovely. And far too fragile for an animal. - Vane

If that's all you came to talk about, you know where the exit is. Or should I reacquaint you with the street, butt first? (Terri)

There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.

He looked at her. "I will miss you, Montana. For the first time in my life, I'll regret leaving someone behind.

All my life I have been a poor go-to-sleeper. No matter how great my weariness, the wrench of parting with consciousness is unspeakably repulsive to me.

It is not that death comes, but that life leaves.

Damn! I hate farewells!

Alyss had kissed him good-bye and then whispered a few private words in his ear.

Will raised one eyebrow sardonically. 'Glad to hear it,' he said. 'Pity I missed you.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

Excuse me, then! you know my heart; But dearest friends, alas! must part.

I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.

I can scarcely bid you good bye even in a letter. I always made an awkward bow. God bless you!

looseleft adj. feeling a sense of loss upon finishing a good book, sensing the weight of the back cover locking away the lives of characters you've gotten to know so well.

Dying seemed a small price to pay for such a kiss and now he knew why Selene had fallen away from Muire so disconsolate.

Sebastien said nothing, but his lips burned with Jack's warmth as he shut the door behind himself and turned to face the stair.

Good-byes breed a sort of distaste for whomever you say good-bye to; this hurts, you feel, this must not happen again.

I must leave you, Claudia. 'Tis unlikely we will have another opportunity to speak alone again before tomorrow." His lips brushed against hers in a kiss so brief that it was over almost before she realized it began. "Do not kiss anyone else until then. I want you to save your kisses for me.

Good-bye. Good luck." "You too." I watched Sam walk away, and then I turned and pressed the button for the crossing, waiting for the traffic to stop so I could cross and go in to work.

CAN YOU SEE? The first... Tear once I found out that you left without a goodbye? The first... Drizzle of rain drowning all my hope? The first... And last heart of mine break in two? The first... Moment we met?

I wonder what my last words to you, the only boy I have loved, will be.

And so the day they had had together folded over on itself, was done with, gone. —