Quotes About Separation

Between them was fifteen or so feet of frozen space, bounded by his window and hers, but it was as if the windows had liquefied, or else the air had, and his vision skewed and rippled and it was all he could do to put the Newport into gear and ease forward to let the next car in.

He is a ghost. He is from some other world. He is Papa, Madame Manec, Etienne; he is everyone who has left her finally coming back.

Everybody has misplaced someone

When they were first married and Albert went away on trips for work, Jutta would wake in the predawn hours and remember those first nights after Werner left for Schulpforta and feel all over again the searing pain of his absence.

Shrouded in his oxhide cape with snow on his shoulders he looks like a phantom from a woodcutter's song, a monster accustomed to doing terrible things, and though she tells herself that by morning the boy will join her husband on thrones in a garden of bliss, where milk pours from stones and honey runs in streams and winter never comes, the feeling of handing him over is a feeling like handing over one of her lungs.

He slips out the door and Konstance sits with her back against the wall and Mother paces, chin jutted, forehead creased, and Konstance goes to the door and presses it.

every second it feels as if her father slips farther away.

What is death, after all, but a cessation of involvement with the world, a departure from those you love, and those who love you?

she gazed at places but could not enter them, witnessed beauty but could not experience it. It was as though she had been excised neatly out of each moment. The world had become like an exhibit at Ward's museum: pretty and nostalgic and watered down, something old and sealed off you weren't allowed to touch.

Those who separate themselves from love, hardening their hearts as they grasp for power or wealth or fame, must separate themselves from the ground of their being. To fail to love is to destroy oneself.

This would eliminate the salient and create a border roughly in a straight line between the North Sea and the Black Sea.

arranged Tiberius' divorce from her without consulting him;

He never forgave her and never saw her again.

Il vantaggio più grande che la libertà offre agli esseri umani è quello di allontanarsi da ciò che infastidisce.

we only lived about fifteen minutes apart, which made the emotional distance between us all the more striking.

separated from the cave by an inlet, the waves pounding

That's what he said, Mum. He often used to say that he made an enemy every time he did a divorce, because someone had to win and someone had to lose.' He thought for a moment. 'Did you tell them he was being followed?

Pack your mother and kiss your clothes goodbye. No!" He banged his head against the table. "Kiss your mother and pack your clothes. Your train leaves at one.

You're my closest friend and you're thousands of miles away.

In order to keep the judiciary independent of the executive, the constitution provided impeachment as the only method for disciplining errant judges.

I was in a long-distance relationship. There's a lot of heartache in distance, and in proximity - those ideas you have when you're next to someone who you haven't seen in a month.

We wanted to draw a line between public life and private life.

I never wanted my private and public life to mix as much as they did when I got divorced.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You've got to go your own way, and that's what I did.