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Quotes About Departure

I went back to the Thirty FAQs. Number Four informed me that I'd present one half of my visa card on arrival in Cuba, and it was Essential that I not lose the second half or I'd have trouble getting out of the country. Well, if things went right, I wouldn't need the second half; and if things went wrong, the second half wouldn't get me out of Cuba.
~ Nelson DeMille
I was starting to get to know the city, and when that happens in a screwed-up place, it's time to leave.
~ Nelson DeMille
I didn't wait to see her ship go off, because partings are stupid things and best got over quickly
~ Nevil Shute
He met the femme de chambre upon the landing. 'I have made up my mind,' he said heavily. 'La petite Rose may come with us to England; I will take her to her father. She must be ready to start to-morrow morning, at seven o'clock.
~ Nevil Shute
Leave-takings are stupid things, and best forgotten about as quickly as possible.
~ Nevil Shute
I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away
~ Nicholas Sparks
When I completed writing 'Soul Mountain,' I more or less closed the accounts with China for myself. I was 50 years old when I left, so China is already within me.
~ Gao Xingjian
I think I needed to move on from Bengal.
~ Victor Banerjee
I thought I was going to be a Bruin my whole career, so it was really tough to leave. But you just have to pick up and move on, and I've done that.
~ Joe Thornton
I'm leaving Atlanta the same way I arrived, with great affection for the fans and a mutual respect.
~ Gerardo Martino
He left and I wished I could go somewhere and start all over, which is how I've felt all my life. As soon as I get somewhere, I'm ready to leave.
~ Chris Offutt
I knew now that the trouble with the dead wasn't that they overwhelmed you, that they haunted you and stifled you with memories. The trouble with the dead was that they packed up and left you, and there was nothing you could do to bring them back.
~ Christie Hodgen
The dawn will be upon us in a couple of hours. We need to leave this place. I won't go with you, she insisted stubbornly. If your pride dictates that you must fight me, you may try to do so. His voice, with its Old World cadence and formality, was almost tender. Her eyes deepened to purple. Stop giving me your permission! I am Mikhail and Raven's daughter, a Carpathian like yourself and not without my own powers. I have the right to my own choices! If it pleases you to think so.
~ Christine Feehan
but now that I view the scene in retrospect I see it as a very gentle and firm deportation, taking me from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady.
~ Christopher Hitchens
I do not especially like the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and informed, not that the party is over but that it is most assuredly going on—only henceforth in my absence. ... Much more horrible, though, would be the announcement that the party was continuing forever, and that I was forbidden to leave.
~ Christopher Hitchens
For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the lights go out and there is total blackness. And if some part of the non-entity we called George has indeed been absent at this moment of terminal shock, away out there on the deep water, then it will return to find itself homeless.
~ Christopher Isherwood
Mr. Asher, I'm going to have to ask you to leave." "No, ma'am, I'm going to have to insist that you pass away, this instant. You're overdue.
~ Christopher Moore
No era tanto que las manecillas del tiempo se hubieran detenido allí, sino más bien como si se hubieran levantado, exasperadas, y el reloj hubiera exclamado: ¡Venga, coño! Yo me largo de aquí.
~ Christopher Moore
He is angry when he leave today. Like bear," said Mrs. Korjev, who was possessed of an atavistic compulsion toward ursine simile.
~ Christopher Moore
Do not be afraid Everyone before you has died You cannot stay Any more than a baby can stay forever in the womb Leave behind all you know All you love Leave behind pain
~ Christopher Moore
Josh se alejó despacio, más o menos en dirección a aquella montaña. El monte Tabor, creo que era. La señora Zebedeo se puso a perseguir a sus hijos como quien persigue pollos
~ Christopher Moore
On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.
~ Christopher Paolini
Gone. Gone! GONE! Blackness. Emptiness.
~ Christopher Paolini
If I am to avoid becoming what I hate , then I have to leave .
~ Christopher Paolini