Quotes About Separation
Who are the Brissotins? A good question. You see, if you accuse people of a crime (for example, and especially, conspiracy) and refuse to sever their trials, then it will at once be seen that they are a group, that they have cohesion. Then if we want to say, you're a Brissotin, you're a Girondist—prove that you're not. Prove that you have a right to be treated separately.
~ Hilary Mantel
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He's an artist in London. We don't see him much." Tom gave him one of his quick, considering glances and asked, "Doesn't he live with you?" "No," said Indigo, finally saying out loud what he had known now for a long, long time. "Not really. Not anymore.
~ Hilary McKay
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She considered it a great relief when a few days later she heard that her abandoned husband had caught pneumonia.
~ Hilary McKay
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Far away can be too far away, when the wrong people are left behind.
~ Hilary McKay
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Bee had been the glue that held them all together, then he was the Velcro. Not as secure, maybe, but there would be an awful tearing sound if he pulled away.
~ Hilma Wolitzer
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The worst moment came when Julie bleated, "Mom, Mom," sounding as plaintive as some lamb separated from the flock.
~ Hilma Wolitzer
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Though I grieve, there is no help;Vainly I long to see her.Men tell me that my wife isIn the mountains of Hagai—Thither I go,Toiling along the stony path;But it avails me not,For of my wife, as she lived in this world,I find not the faintest shadow.
~ Unknown
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He loved me and I would rather have him become one with me than disappear from my life. Then I'd never have to be away from him ever again. He said I was important to him. So why did he leave me? How could he leave me?
~ Unknown
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I've always been somewhat isolated. I've borne my isolation with me through the crowd as the snail bears its house. For some people isolation isn't a circumstance in which they find themselves, it's an innate characteristic. And through this act my isolation is likely to increase; no matter how it ends, whether badly or well, for me the "punishment" will be solitary confinement for life.
~ Hjalmar Söderberg
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And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea. It was yours before I could ever admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.
~ Holly Black
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I hope Cardan misses me.
~ Holly Black
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I think of Madoc, dozing away upstairs, all his dreams of murder. I think of Oriana and Oak being forced apart for years. I think of Cardan and how he will hate me. I think of what it means to make myself the villain of the piece. "For the next full minute, I command you not to move," I whisper back.
~ Holly Black
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But even with distance between us, the longing to touch him persists
~ Holly Black
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It's not what you think," Vince said from the mouth of the hall. He didn't turn, so she couldn't even try to interpret his expression. The humor had left his voice, though. "Oh, yeah?" she called after him. "Then why are you leaving?" "Because it's worse.
~ Holly Black
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loved him and he's dead and gone and bones. I loved him and they took him away from me. Where is he? Where is he? Dead and gone and
~ Holly Black
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I note how stiff they are with each other, how carefully they keep separate, as magnets must keep a safe distance or be slammed together by their very nature.
~ Holly Black
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Quiero que mi nombre desaparezca de sus labios.
~ Holly Black
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Quiero que mi nombre desaparezca de tus labios.
~ Holly Black
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On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens. —Henry Ward Beecher
~ Holly Black
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I used to wish that Madoc never went looking for those girls, and now all I wish is that we could be together again as we once were.
~ Holly Black
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Why did the father of these poor girls, the Comte de Granville, a wise and upright magistrate (though sometimes led away by politics), refrain from protecting the helpless little creatures from such crushing despotism? Alas! by mutual understanding, about ten years after marriage, he and his wife were separated while living under one roof. The father had taken upon himself the education of his sons, leaving that of the daughters to his wife.
~ Honore de Balzac
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Mi padre no volverá a mirarme a la cara", pensó. "Apartará sus ojos de mí, incluso me estará dando muerte.
~ Lian Hearn
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There was no such thing as a good divorce for children.
~ Liane Moriarty
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When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family, Madeline had told her once.
~ Liane Moriarty
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