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Quotes About Parting

For a moment our eyes meet, but we exchange nothing except a grim determination to get this parting over, to get this exile underway, to keep this precious boy safe. I suppose that Jasper is the only man that I have loved, perhaps he is the only man that I will ever love. But there has never been time for words of love between us, we have spent most of our time saying goodbye.
~ Philippa Gregory
Be right back," Jake told her. Wally said nothing. He was thinking how their last words to her would be "Be right back," and twenty years later they'd get out of prison.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Andrè fu il primo a partire, mentre parlava, a metà di una frase, come si spegne una candela.
~ Primo Levi
Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.
~ Rachel Caine
It's dreadfully unfair to say things like that when this is likely the last time we will speak and we both know you don't mean what you say. It's pure selfishness that you want to keep me here.
~ Rachel Caine
Parting is such sweet sorrow, according to the bards. I wouldn't know, myself. I never parted anyone." He mimed ripping someone in half, then got an odd expression on his face. "Well. Just the one time, really. Doesn't count.
~ Rachel Caine
I made the mistake of turning back to look at her one last time before I left the room. It was heartbreaking, really—she just sat there, stunned. She looked like she was waking up in a strange place—only she knew she hadn't gone to sleep yet, and that this was actually life.
~ Rachel Cohn
I'm going to miss you, too," she said. And then she slipped out of the moment, slipped out of the us, by adding, "I'm going to miss everyone.
~ Rachel Cohn
Maybe this is how it goes, I think, watching Beth and Melanie, remembering the people I have loved, and the ones I wish I hadn't lost. Maybe we are all Beths, boarding other people's life journeys, or letting them hop aboard ours. For a while we ride together. A few minutes, a few miles. Companions on the road, sharing our air and our view, our feet swaying to the same beat. Then you get off at your stop, or I get off at mine. Unless we decide to stay on longer together.
~ Rachel Simon
I will be gone, but I will miss you if I'm still able to miss anything, that is, if some particle of me remains and some particle of you.
~ Denise Duhamel
He gave her a long, worried look, but cars were stacking up behind them and dusk was gathering. A horn blared. Then another. He handed her a business card—Kenny's Cabinets—and told her to call him anytime. She thanked him and got out of the minivan. As he drove away, she realized the van wasn't even red. It was bronze.
~ Dennis Lehane
When the day shall come, that we do part, he said softly, and turned to look at me, if my last words are not 'I love you'—ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.
~ Diana Gabaldon
He bent and kissed me briefly, then headed for the door. Just short of it, though, he turned back. The, um, sperms ... he said, a little awkwardly. Yes? Can ye not take them out and give them decent burial or something? I hid my smile in my teacup. I'll take good care of them, I promised. I always do, don't I?
~ Diana Gabaldon
When the day shall come, that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'—ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.
~ Diana Gabaldon
What he felt, though, was the echo of her flesh, and the reverberations of their farewell, with all its doubts and pleasures.
~ Diana Gabaldon
of Jamie. God, how could I do it? Leave him
~ Diana Gabaldon
Stephan's hand left his breast, and reached out. Grey took it, and felt love flow between them. He thought that heart and body must be entirely melted—if only for that moment. Then they parted, each drawing back, each seeing the flash of desolation in the other's face, both smiling ruefully to see it.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Jamie," I said at last. "Oh, Jamie. You're Ã¢â'¬Â¦ everything. Always." An hour later, we left the Ridge.
~ Diana Gabaldon
When the day shall come that we do part, he said softly, and turned to look at me, if my last words are not 'I love you' - ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.
~ Diana Gabaldon
You never knew, when you took farewell of someone, whether it might be the last time. The least you could do was say you loved them—and she wished she had. She pressed her fingertips to her lips and, as they swung out to go around the first curve, threw a kiss to the distant figure, still standing in the road.
~ Diana Gabaldon
All right. Go and find them. I'll come in the morning—at first light. Meet me where I found you, all right?" "Awright," she whispered, and laid a small white hand on his chest, just over his heart. "Sank you, Wiyum.
~ Diana Gabaldon
When the day shall come, that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'—ye'll ken it was because I didna have time." This book is for my Sister, Theresa Gabaldon
~ Diana Gabaldon
Let's not forget, I got divorced.
~ Larry David
Wir verabschieden uns, im Alltag, mit einem ao-jo, das bedeutet soviel wie: komm-geh. Ich gehe, damit ich wiederkommen kann.
~ Unknown