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Quotes About Separation

There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Good-bye, Harry, wherever you may be … never has it been more clear to me that the part of my life which you occupied is over forever … I could not be further away from you if I were on the moon … how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.
~ Jim Fergus
It hurts to set you free, but you'll never follow me.
~ Jim Morrison
A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.
~ Jim Samuels
I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.
~ Jimmy Carter
But in the end, God's standard lasts for eternity, and He judges and separates. He is a just God. It doesn't matter how much money you make, what you look like, how smart or talented you are, or what status you hold. If you know Jesus, live for Him, and treat others with love, you will have everything you need for success on earth—and in heaven. All things will be fully revealed and rewarded.
~ Jimmy Evans
I haven't forgotten one second of how good it felt to hold you, but I wasn't the one who pulled away. You don't want me to be more, do you? I just keep pushing against your walls, and to tell you the truth, baby, my hands are starting to bleed. do you want me gone for good? Look at me, tell me to leave you alone, and I will. I swear I'll get in my truck, drive off, and never bother you again." --Tommy to Shea
~ Jo Davis
How easily we part, adieu, how often I leave trails of myself in your wake.
~ Jo Shapcott
Divorce casts so many shadows.
~ Joan Bauer
Aki megszületik, annak meg is kell halnia. Akik találkoznak, azoknak el is kell válniuk... De amin megosztozunk ebben az életben, azt már soha nem lehet elvenni tÅ'lünk.
~ Joan D. Vinge
Lynn said that therapy was like separating the strands in a tangled web of yarn. It made sense that things would keep getting more separate for awhile so that we eventually came back together in an organized way. (205)
~ Joan Frances Casey
My arms are empty without you! My heart cries out, lonely in the darkness, but you are not here. No tears shall bring you back into my arms again. My mothers love was not strong enough to keep you, but it is strong enough to follow and find you, though all the mists of Eternity should try to come between!
~ Joan Walsh Anglund
I gave the knife to the one that had to stay behind
~ Joanne Greenberg
El agua apaga el fuego y al ardor los años, amor se llama el juego en el que un par de ciegos juegan a hacerse daño. y cada vez peor y cada vez mas rotos y cada vez mas tu y cada vez mas yo sin rastro de nosotros.
~ Joaquín Sabina
For years after my father left us for Belladonna, I had looked for him... the last time someone had seen them, they were living on a duck's back.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
One by one they dissapeared Pumpkin last of all. The last May saw of himwas his sad face under his waving tuft of hair and then his long fingers,reaching out toward her for a hug that would never happen now as they turned around the bend.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
You have to stay away." "I'd rather not.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Tiger Lily, you know Moon Eye isn't for me." "She is," Tiger Lily said. "She's like me. They're two different things. You're …" He swallowed. "You're everything to me. You know that. Don't pretend that you don't." She
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
He wondered for an idle moment if he'd ever see her again, but it didn't look likely. You have to be realistic, after all, and getting through tomorrow seemed like quite the ambition.
~ Joe Abercrombie
At that moment, I wished with everything in my body that things could be different. I wished I could pluck out the threads of him that I didn't care for and keep the ones I liked. But then again, I knew that people couldn't be pulled apart in that way. Those severed threads would just cause the whole of him to unravel.
~ Ann Howard Creel
I wonder how you say goodbye to someone forever?
~ Ann M. Martin
that the smallest, truest reason he will never fly again is that the last airplane seat he ever sits in has to be the one beside his brother.
~ Ann Napolitano
But perhaps what felt impossible was leaving that person behind. When your love for a person is so profound that it's part of who you are, then the absence of the person becomes part of your DNA, your bones, and your skin. Charlie's and
~ Ann Napolitano
He knows the loss of Jordan will remain with him forever, even as Edward slowly leaves his parents behind. He was supposed to grow up and leave his mom and dad, after all, just like he will leave John and Lacey in the fall when he goes to college. That is part of the natural order. Edward wasn't supposed to leave Jordan, though. They were meant to age together. That loss continues to be spiked with pain; it will never be soothed.
~ Ann Napolitano