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Quotes About Separation

It was too heartbreaking to live with so many separations.
~ David Levithan
this is why we call people exes, i guess - because the paths that cross in the middle end up separating at the end
~ David Levithan
want to see you, but I'm not sure if we should do that. I want to hear about what's going on, but I'm afraid that will only start everything again. I love you—I do—but I am afraid of making that love too important. Because you're always going to leave me, A. We can't deny it. You're always going to leave.
~ David Levithan
he's walking away and at the same time i feel like i'm the one leaving him behind.
~ David Levithan
I leave her in the bed. I put on my clothes, pick up my keys, and close the door behind me. I turn back. I keep turning back to see her. Even when there are walls between us. I keep turning back. I keep turning in her direction.
~ David Levithan
So many of us had to leave. But every single one of us wishes we hadn't had to. Every single one of us wishes our family had acted like our family, that even when we found a new family, we hadn't had to leave the other one behind. Every single one of us would have loved to have been loved unconditionally by our parents. Don't make him leave you, we want to tell Mrs. Kim. He doesn't want to leave you.
~ David Levithan
In fact, the people who live in this town exist—millions of them. They just don't happen to all live in the same town.
~ David Levithan
Love was to blame for this. Because when love ends, the cold is what you're left with. It was all I needed to feel.
~ David Levithan
You will miss the taste of Froot Loops. You will miss the sound of traffic. You will miss your back against his. You will even miss him stealing the sheets. Do not ignore these things.
~ David Levithan
Just because I don't think we'd be good together doesn't mean we have to be apart. ...
~ David Levithan
You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to detach completely, I would move my body away. I would stop the conversation mid-sentence. I would leave the bed. Instead, I hover over it for a second. I glance off in another direction. But I always glance back at you.
~ David Levithan
I'll kill myself. I swear, I'll kill myself, you threatened. We're not going to leave you alone, I said. But we had to, eventually. After all, people are always separable.
~ David Levithan
I'm still upset with my mother, though. And scared. If you lose me, I remember her saying when I was little and we'd go to a department store, just let one of those salesladies know, and they will take you to where I can find you. Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true-- that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.
~ David Levithan
After all, people are always separable.
~ David Levithan
I tell him goodbye instead - a kind of goodbye that's never, ever final.
~ David Levithan
Maybe, I thought, it's not distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.
~ David Levithan
Maybe, I thought, it's not distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.
~ David Levithan
I am seeing that I cannot be a part of the music that sets him free.
~ David Levithan
It hurts that I can be so full of him, when he's so empty of me.
~ David Levithan
Even when I detach, I care. You can be separated from a thing and still care about it.
~ David Levithan
When courts usurp the legislative function and make laws rather than interpret them, when Congress delegates its legislative functions to an unaccountable administrative state, and when presidents issue lawless executive orders, they are abusing their respective constitutional authority.
~ David Limbaugh
I finished and e-mailed to myself to see what it'd read like to open, and decided it looked a little loopy and that I'd been the right person to open it after all. I read him, thought about him, and I never saw him again except on television once.
~ David Lipsky
Worldwide, infidelity is the leading cause of divorce.
~ David M. Buss
Sexual dissatisfaction is linked with marital unhappiness, which is a good predictor of divorce.
~ David M. Buss