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Quotes About Away

That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away.
~ Nick Hornby
No, I had no dollars. The man struggled spider-legged away through the rain, leaving me struck by the illogic of things
~ Colin Thubron
Should this be the end of the story? a kind of sigh? a last ripple of the wave? A trickle of water to some gutter where, burbling, it dies away?
~ Virginia Woolf
Gypsies, ma! Gypsies! They've come to steal me away!
~ Laura London
The way they knew that Bone Gap had gaps just wide enough for people to slip through, or slip away, leaving only their stories behind.
~ Laura Ruby
He knew he could worm his way beneath her defenses—he'd read every word of those diaries. He knew the one absolute way to fulfill her every dream. The problem was, could he do that to her? He didn't have to. He could turn about this moment and ride away. Yet that would mean leaving her forever.
~ Celeste Bradley
as her mother promised to teach them everything a young lady needed to keep a house. As if, Marilyn thought, it might run away when you weren't looking.
~ Celeste Ng
the night before? He had been away four whole
~ Celeste Ng
He was touched in the cavity where his heart should have been, in that nest of addled eggs, where the birds of heaven would have lived if they had not been whistled away, by the fervour of this reproach.
~ Charles Dickens
Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
~ Austin O'Malley
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
~ Carl Sandburg
September comes, and... Summer thins away.
~ Hal Borland
You went to a strange land searching For a truth you felt was wrong That's when the heartaches started Though you're where you want to be You're not where you belong When your love has moved away You must face yourself and you must say I remember better days
~ Graham Nash
In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
~ Groucho Marx
But when a place has been an island the memory of water lingers, and of water magic, no matter how far away the sea may be, or how long ago it fell away. And
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
She'd whisper to me to take my tiny piece of happiness, hold its honey in my mouth until it melts away.
~ Guy Vanderhaeghe
It's better to put your heart on the line, risk everything, and walk away with nothing. Because if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Welladay! Welladay! For the winds of May! Love is unhappy when love is away!
~ James Joyce
Oh no! Don't drag us away from Antartica and take us to the playground of the rich and famous! Not that briar patch! -Max
~ James Patterson
Fifty points at home and 50 points away is unheard of as a team and I'd love to keep improving.
~ John Stones
I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.
~ Simon Callow
If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away
~ Sarah Addison Allen
In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away.
~ Rachel Simon
For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they've got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio, and I'm not like that. I used to think I wanted to be. But I need to be away from it, too, and that's the difference, I think.
~ Tom Bodett