Quotes About Separation

He released her hand back in her own lap. Sometimes you give up what you love to stay alive. Have you ever had to do that? He turned his head to look at her so long it should have been dangerous, but he seemed to have a sixth sense when it came to the road. It's coming, he said. And he turned away, driving into the slowly dawning day.

Dawn couldn't come soon enough. He had to get her out of his life as quickly as possible. It was becoming the most important thing—more important than breathing, living. He needed to get away from her, fast. Because he didn't want to let her go.

Her three children, she saw, had been staring at the horizon with the alert, tensed stillness of explorers at the ocean's edge, poised to begin their journeys. And Delia, shading her eyes in the distance, had been trying to understand why they were leaving. Where they were going without her. How to say goodbye.

The difference between this scene and the ones in the French paintings, Alice thought, was that the paintings all showed people interacting—picnickers and boating parties. But here everybody was separate. Even her father, a few yards away from her, was swimming now toward shore. A passerby would never guess the Garretts even knew each other. They looked so scattered, and so lonesome.

Oh, I know!" Willa said. "Who's going to believe a couple would bother divorcing if they've only developed different hobbies or something?

You want to be independent?" he asked. He pronounced the word at a distance, somehow, as if he found it distasteful.

passerby would never guess the Garretts even knew each other. They looked so scattered, and so lonesome.

apart," Abby said. "Yes, except he could put it back

just meant I had to get up the next morning and tell Denise, 'Don't fix any breakfast for me; I'm moving out

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator--our very self-consciousness--is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

Me enloquecía que estuviera tan lejos, fuera del alcance de mi doliente piel. Pero también había algo intenso en la incorporeidad, como si la distancia amplificase nuestra conexión.

Maybe that is the price of loving someone: you lose your grasp of where they ended and you began.

Their bodies fit perfectly like this, two continents pulled eons ago but now rejoined.

Faith and politics ought to be united in a Christian who has a political vocation, but they are not to be identified [as one]…Faith ought to inspire political action, not be mistaken for it

Maintaining his solitude... 'I'd rather be abandoned than engulfed

Contempt is one of four behaviors that, statistically, can predict divorce in married couples.

A young couple who love each other but who can't be together as they long to be because someone is preventing it.4

You do not equal the project. Criticism of the project is not criticism of you.

Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.

She was dying and he was not, and that was a barrier not even love could breach.

Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there's no denying that individuation and separation are inevitable parts of loving relationships that become the site of tension.

I know that we're not on a ship and there is no water around us, but I can't help wonder how long before my friend is cast into the sea.

We all have to find our own ways to say goodbye. (161)

We got latched together and I was hoping you could separate us? (Amanda) They were made by your stepfather. Any chance you have a key lying around? (Kyrian) I guess I shouldn't be surprised. At least this time she's not an Amazon princess with an irate mother demanding parts of your body be removed. Two thousand years later, and you're still getting into unbelievable messes. (Julian)