Quotes About Separation

Are you sure it wouldn't work?" said Jo urgently, in a quiet voice. "Are you sure you don't want to see him again? Laura wanted to laugh. Those were two totally separate things, weren't they?

Enigszins ontheemd stonden zij bij hen, maar zonder in hen op te gaan, als vetkringen in de bouillon.

The process of putting Haarlem behind him resembled the changes a man goes through when he divorces. He takes a girl friend to forget his wife, but just doing that prolongs the connection with the wife. Possibly things will work out only with the next girl friend - although the third one has the best chance. Boundaries have to be continuously sealed off, but it's a hopeless job, fore everything touches everything else in this world. A beginning never disappears, not even with the ending.

It's a long way to Tipperary, it's a long way to go;It's a long way to Tipperary, to the sweetest girl I know!Goodbye, Piccadilly, farewell, Leicester Square,It's a long, long way to Tipperary, but my heart's right there!

People believe that separation opens their eyes to their self-defeating behaviors and gives them an opportunity to resolve those problems with a new partner. But unless they under- stand the unconscious desires that motivated their dysfunctional behavior in the first relationship and learn how to satisfy those desires with the new partner, the second relationship is destined to run aground on the same submerged rocks.

One last dance, my lady, before I am never to see you again?

the greatest agony on earth didn't lie in the pain of living or the pain of death, but in the pain of separation that haunted the heart and soul?

Let's pretend that I am a soldier, going off to your own cause. That you will pine away the hours that I am gone. That you will love me now with all your heart and soul, touch me to remember me, in all the long days that will come to pass.

You!" he said, pointing a finger at her. "I will never feel safe about you." "But—" "But! Will you miss me?" She moistened her lips. "Perhaps." His laughter was throaty. "It will pain me every second that I am away." "You are a liar!" she accused him. "It's God's truth." "Well, it's hard to tell. You do manage to keep your distance when you choose.

he wondered again how they managed to tear each other apart so completely.

Looking out over the water, I spotted him right away,straddling his board. He was only a dot, but I would have known him anywhere.I thought of the shape of his hands,the hollow at the base of his spine,the way my heart had never stopped skipping a beat at the sound of his voice, and I realized it was the kind of loss- because I knew now that the thing I wanted more than anything in the world not to go fully wrong could- from which I would never fully recover. And I'm not sure I ever fully have.

I couldn't bear to think of my mother loving me but unable to face me, to stare into my eyes, to care for me emotionally, to offer me her face. Like any daughter, as much as I wanted to separate from her, I wanted to be deeply connected to her, I wanted to redeem her, I wanted to protect her. I wanted to love and to understand, in that order.

The feelings are overwhelming, but they're not you. They're the feelings. You are separate, and you are strong and amazing and good.

Sometimes when I remember we aren't the same person, it shocks me.

One is the loneliest number

Claude's kindergarten was full-day, six whole hours of sitting quietly and following rules and being away from home where someone—everyone—loved him best of all.

I've nursed a lifelong love affair with movement, straying ever farther from those I love most. But somewhere along the way, it dawned on me that I was always traveling with family - because the act of travel, to the extent that it separates us from our relatives, also extends, manifests, multiplies, and completes family.

Y cuando nos separamos, es otoño en mi corazón.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

No less romantically than Rapunzel in her tower pined for rescue did I pine for this idealized being, a kind of alternate me, a me outside of me. A shining one who would somehow at once be my familiar, my deepest intimate, and at the same time exist thrillingly apart.

Sunja was still thinking about Hansu and how he might be nearby. More than anything, she was afraid of running into him. Yet it would be worse, she thought, never to see him at all." Book 1, p89

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.