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Quotes About Separation

Now my parents are divorced and I live in Connecticut with my mom and brother, but my dad still lives in California. All in all, I've flown back and forth across the country eleven times.
~ Ann M. Martin
I mean, Jessi's my best friend. I'll just die if she moves away.
~ Ann M. Martin
Sometimes when my friends leave after a club meeting, I feel a little let down. Suddenly my room is quiet again and it's funny, but that's when I miss Stacey the most. Knowing that my only best friend is all the way in New York City makes me feel bad, but just for a few moments. Then I remember that Mimi is home and I can run downstairs and help her fix dinner.
~ Ann M. Martin
Oh, I just hate you," she cried. "You're going to have so much fun without me.
~ Ann M. Martin
the bigots, whether they are of the Islamist variety or the anti-Muslim variety, essentially agree on a few matters. One is their belief that Islam itself—not Islamism—is a supremacist ideology that is here to take over the world; another is that, therefore, Muslims and non-Muslims can never live equally and peacefully together, but must separate into religiously defined entities.
~ Sam Harris
In the best case, notions of God's love and grace provide some relief—but the central message of these faiths is that each of us is separate from, and in relationship to, a divine authority who will punish anyone who harbors the slightest doubt about His supremacy.
~ Sam Harris
Not wanting to have an obvious hand in actually separating church and state, the U.S. Congress amended an appropriations bill to ensure that federal funds could not be used for the monument's removal.
~ Sam Harris
They sought each other, missed each other, at cocktail parties, in train terminals, at flower shops, their fin de siecle Nokias gaining symbolic power with each scene.
~ Sam Lipsyte
Sometimes two people need to fall apart to realize how much they need to fall back together.
~ Samit Basu
The existence of the twilight does not mean we cannot distinguish the day from the night.
~ Samuel Johnson
ALMOND-FURNACE  (A'LMOND-FURNACE)    or A'LMAN-FURNACE, called also the Sweep, is a peculiar kind of furnace used in refining, to separate metals from cinders and other foreign substances.Chambers.
~ Samuel Johnson
ABANNITION  (ABANNI'TION)   n.s.[Lat. abannitio.] A banishment for one or two years, among the ancients, for manslaughter.Dict.
~ Samuel Johnson
ABGREGATION  (ABGREGA'TION)   n.s.[abgregatio, Lat.] A separation from the flock.Dict.  
~ Samuel Johnson
ADIEU  (ADIEU')   adv.[from à Dieu, used elliptically for à Dieu je vous commende, used at the departure of friends.]The form
~ Samuel Johnson
what I had to live with, the rest of the world must never see, for it separated me from them, as it had just done with my former best friends and with my one long love, Berry. There was rage and rage and rage, coating all like crude oil coating gulls. They had hurt me, bad. For now, I had no faith in the others of the world. And the delivery of medical care? Farce. BUFF 'n' TURF. Revolving door.
~ Samuel Shem
They stood aloof the scars remaining. Like cliffs which had been rent asunder.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
They parted—ne'er to meet again! But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining— They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder; A dreary sea now flows between;— But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For who will dare to force his way out of the crowd, — not of the mere vulgar, — but of the vain and banded aristocracy of intellect, and presume to join the almost supernatural beings that stand by themselves aloof?
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I can't wait to start never seeing you again.
~ Sandra Brown
Right now it's like we're three islands, and nothing but oceans between us.
~ Sara Zarr
I do not want leaving me to be easy.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete.
~ Sarah Dessen
Looking back, it seemed like it should have been harder to lose someone, or have them lose you, especially when they were in the same state, only a few towns over.
~ Sarah Dessen
It was terrible and awful when someone left you. You could move on, do the best you could, but like Eli had said, an ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have to have the last word.
~ Sarah Dessen