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Quotes About Separation

She had given him up. That was the hard condition of his being and of all commerce between them.
~ David Malouf
Presidential campaign observer Teddy White on the second Kennedy-Nixon debate in which the candidates spoke from separate television studios: It was as if, separated by comments from his adversary, Richard Nixon was more at ease and could speak directly to the nation that lay between them.
~ David Pietrusza
We melt; we tear and rip apart. Membrane, baby. Cellophane. Ain't that some shit.
~ Unknown
In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.
~ David Sedaris
The two of you grew apart,' my mother would say. She made it sound as if we'd veered off in different directions, though in fact we had the exact same destination. I just never made it.
~ David Sedaris
La victoria separa más que la derrota.
~ David Trueba
Soy el ser más egoísta del mundo porque quise ser independiente. Eso me alejó de todos, me convirtió en una isla.
~ David Trueba
The reader as a whole reflected, as Bingham intended, New England's long transition from seventeenth-century Calvinism to nineteenth-century evangelical, freewill doctrine, from Puritan theocracy to the Revolutionary era's separation of church and state.
~ David W. Blight
You're all the world to me. Whenever i can't see you... I die a little.
~ Yasmina Khadra
And as we stray further from love we multiply the words, words and sentences so long and orderly. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.
~ Yehuda Amichai
I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric.
~ Zadie Smith
Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.
~ Zadie Smith
Porque el divorcio es eso: quitarle cosas que no ya no necesita a una persona a la que ya no quieres.
~ Zadie Smith
He had not seen her since that afternoon. And with the miracle that is male compartmentalization he had barely thought of her either.
~ Zadie Smith
This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love. ~ Archie Jones
~ Zadie Smith
Det är det som är en skilsmässa: man tar saker man inte längre vill ha från människor man inte längre älskar.
~ Zadie Smith
She held herself apart, always.
~ Zadie Smith
This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from the people you no longer love.
~ Zadie Smith
It was his fourth trip to the attic in so many days, ferrying out the odds and ends of a marriage to his new flat, and the Hoover was amongst the very last items he reclaimed – one of the most broken things, most ugly things, the things you demand out of sheer bloody-mindedness because you have lost the house. This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love
~ Zadie Smith
This iswhat divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love
~ Zadie Smith
The happy ending is never universal. Someone is always left behind.
~ Zadie Smith
dare we live for one another? Dare we be happy? Child, it's our only hope. Let us make our love atone for the hate of our fathers. We have been doomed by their sins. Not that...nor anythin' can keep us apart. I am a slayer of men, but I think God spoke to me today.
~ Zane Grey
So is blurred so is blurred in me what white-haired gentleman separated once and for all and said this is the subject this is the object we fall asleep with one hand under our head and with the other in a mound of planets our feet abandon us and taste the earth with their tiny roots which next morning we tear out painfully
~ Zbigniew Herbert
ma adaptez peregrinarilor lui Ghily, peregrinarilor Maiei si peregrinarilor lui Yotam, acestea sunt triburile de nomazi ale epocii moderne, copii de divortati care isi pastoresc turmele de jucarii in orele amiezii dintr-o casa in alta, de la mama la tata si invers
~ Zeruya Shalev