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Quotes About Separation

What was striking was the sheer negative capability of their former intimacy:
~ Rachel Cusk
In marriage you go away from other people, but at the end of marriage they come out to welcome you back. This is civilisation, she says. The worst thing that happened to you has brought out the best in them.
~ Rachel Cusk
Stay away from me so I don't feel anything for you anymore.
~ Rachel Gibson
He lowered his face to hers and spoke against her mouth. "I don't want to imagine you not in my life.
~ Rachel Gibson
One of the most difficult things he'd ever done was turn away and leave her standing in the shadows.
~ Rachel Gibson
However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.
~ Rachel Hartman
I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause he seems to consider it not just an inconvenience but an indignity that, although he got 270 electoral votes and therefore gets to be president, he didn't get everything.
~ George Will
You write these vulnerable songs as a sort of therapy, but if you don't confront people on a daily basis, it's not reality. There's still a bit of separation there.
~ Sharon Van Etten
It was a slow process of getting closer and closer to my actual personality on stage. And now there's very little separation. I definitely find the more open and vulnerable I am, the more people enjoy it.
~ Mae Martin
Cam disappears at the end of 'Rapture.' It was the only way for me to say good-bye to him at the time, and it's the way he prefers to split, anyway. I always knew I would return to him. He's been my favorite from the start. Readers have long asked what happened to him, but I had to wait for his story to come to me on its own.
~ Lauren Kate
The touring part is really mixed. You love to play and you can't wait to go, but you don't want to leave.
~ Nuno Bettencourt
On other shows, guys can't wait to put 3000 miles between them during hiatus.
~ Martin Milner
My grandfather left Cuba when Castro came into power and literally left everything. He had two suitcases and two kids and showed up in New Jersey and waited for my uncle to meet up with him. Imagine - there were no cell phones back then!
~ Chrissie Fit
Anything that could be conceived of that would separate black people from white people was devised and codified by someone in some state in the South. There were colored and White waiting rooms everywhere, from doctor's offices to the bus stations, as people may already know.
~ Isabel Wilkerson
Usually, when a DB is trying to catch up to you, he'll run to your wake because his natural instinct is to trail you so you don't get too much separation.
~ Davante Adams
When we let cops talk about themselves as a separate community, then we are letting cops wall themselves off from the rest of us. We don't generally do that with any other jobs. We don't talk about the barista community or the Wal-Mart greeter community.
~ W. Kamau Bell
Cornwall, peopled mainly by Celts, but with an infusion of English blood, stands and always has stood apart from the rest of England, much, but in a less degree, as has Wales.
~ Sabine Baring-Gould
Because Scotland and Northern Ireland want to remain part of the E.U., there is the quite real possibility that Scotland and even Northern Ireland might now choose to go their own way on membership within the E.U. and the 'United Kingdom' would suddenly effectively be only England and Wales.
~ Peter Bergen
The best divorce is the kind where there are no children. That was my first divorce. You walk out the door and you never look back.
~ Nora Ephron
I haven't watched one second of 'First Take' since I walked off that set.
~ Skip Bayless
Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters.
~ Nicola Sturgeon
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
~ Louis Kahn
I married my best friend when I was 23, but when I realized I wanted to move to L.A. to follow my dreams, we separated and eventually divorced.
~ Bridget Marquardt
We want to be big... we want to be a big band, but we don't want to be your best friends.
~ Brian Fallon