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Quotes About Separation

There's nothing more adult than being ripped away from friends and family, you know? Having to manage a life when you're not fully there, manage a life when you don't make a lot of money. It's very adult.
~ Jack Antonoff
It's kind of crazy to think that I've now been divorced longer than I was married, but I appreciate the journey, because it brought my ex and I back to a friendship that helped us become great co-parents.
~ Regina King
In writing 'Another Brooklyn,' I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
When I like myself, which is not too often, but when I do like myself on film, it's when I point, and I go, 'Look what she did! She did the funniest thing - look at her!' Where I can really separate back from it and I don't see me anymore, then I'm really excited. That's, like, really fun for me. That jazzes me.
~ Dinah Manoff
The mere fact that Lottie had come and gone away again made things seem a little worse-just as perhaps prisoners feel a little more desolate after visitors come and go, leaving them behind.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sara put her hand up to her forehead, and her mouth trembled. She spoke as if she were in a dream. And I was at Miss Minchin's all the while, she half whispered. Just on the other side of the wall.
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
I'll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won't be.
~ Francesca Lia Block
You turned your head to look at me. Your eyes looked so big in your face, so mysterious — wide and flickering like a butterfly-wing mask. When you saw me the wails turned to sobs, and then just quieter heaves of your body. I held out my finger through the bars. Then you reached out and curled your fingers around mine, so tight. I knew you recognized me. That was the first time I knew I had a heart inside my body.
~ Francesca Lia Block
What did it mean for us? Because everything I did, everything that happened to me, that was what I asked myself - what does this mean for us. It meant that I was farther away from you, different. It meant that if we let ourselves, we could get closer than we had ever been. Disappear into each other. You'd bleed and I wouldn't. Then we both would.
~ Francesca Lia Block
The ocean knew where her sailor was. We have seen him, said the waves. He is sleeping with us. You will never kiss his lips or feel the weight of his body again.
~ Francine Prose
But you see, the Land of Oz has never been civilized, for we are cut off from the rest of the world. Therefore we still have witches and wizards amongst us.
~ Frank Baum
Hatter, my love, we never got a chance to say good-bye. --Weaver
~ Frank Beddor
Fragmentation is the natural destiny of all power.
~ Frank Herbert
To exist is to stand out, away from the background
~ Frank Herbert
Is there some frontier? Idaho asked. Is there some frontier where I could go and never again be part of this? If there is to be any frontier, you must help me create it, Leto said.
~ Frank Herbert
Humans are always most lonely.
~ Frank Herbert
Universul e al lui Dumnezeu. El este un singur lucru, un tot de la care pornind se pot identifica toate separaÈ›iile. ViaÈ›a trec?toare, inclusiv acea via?? înzestrat? cu raÈ›iune È™i conÈ™tiin?? pe care noi o numim inteligen??, nu deÈ›ine decât un mandat fragil asupra unei p?rÈ›i oarecare din tot.
~ Frank Herbert
For all of those years since birth they had been as one person. But their plan demanded now that they undergo a metamorphosis, going their separate ways into uniqueness where the sharing of daily experiences would never again unite them as they once had been united.
~ Frank Herbert
On the Funeral Plain we learned to despise the men of the communities.
~ Frank Herbert
What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
~ Frank Herbert
A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.
~ Frank O'Connor
Journalism was vigilant about separating the church of editorial from the secular concerns of business. We can now see the justification for such fanaticism about building a thick, tall wall between the two. The fear was that we'd enter a world where readers couldn't tell the difference between editorial and advertising—where the corrupt hand of advertisers would interfere with the journalistic search for truth. Those fears are in the process of being realized.
~ Franklin Foer
Good-by and good riddance!
~ Franklin W. Dixon