Quotes About Separation

Why I'm Not Where You Are

I was more alone than if I had been alone.

I put my hand on the doorknob because I thought maybe her hand was on the doorknob on the other side.

To feel alone is to be alone.

In the end, everyone loses everyone.

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

We just stood there, facing each other, but nine floors apart.

An ocean could not explain the distance we have traveled.

I walked into a bakery seven years later and there he was. He had dogs at his feet and a bird in a cage beside him. The seven years were not seven years. They were not seven hundred years. Their length could not be measured in years, just as an ocean could not explain the distance we had traveled, just as the dead can never be counted. I wanted to run away from him, and I wanted to go right up to him.

I wanted to build walls around him, I wanted to separate inside from outside, I wanted to give him an infinitely long blank book and the rest of time.

The center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me.

maybe great books were coiled within him like springs, books that could have separated inside from outside.

Fish are divided from us by surfaces and silence.

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There's no invention to get around that. And so, I felt that night like the turtle that everything in the universe was on top of.

she saw through the shell of me into the center of me … She went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me

And was the next word I lost, probably because it was so close to her name, what a simple word to say, what a profound word to lose.

She was also the most lonely and sad. She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could b divided into its infinite spectrum.

They had never seen one another from afar. They had never known the deepest intimacy, that closeness attainable only with distance

Everything was incredibly far away from me.

But I knew that there couldn't be pockets that enormous. In the end, everyone loses everyone.

Every time I left our apartment to go searching for the lock, I became a little lighter, because I was getting closer to Dad. But I also became a little heavier, because I was getting farther from Mom.

Si-a lasat familia de izbeliste. Mi-am scris expresia pe creier.

She went home with her father, the center of me followed her, but I was left with the shell of me.

He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all.