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Quotes About Departure

Tottenham set a points and victories record in my first season, missed out on the Champions League by one point and had a great run in the Europa League. In the second season, at the time I left we had more points than in the previous campaign.
~ Andre Villas-Boas
If you don't send me away from Stony Cross by tomorrow morning, I'll take it as a personal invitation to your bed.
~ Lisa Kleypas
You need something more nourishing than the contents of that glass, Mr. Shaw." His hard gaze met hers. "I know what I need, you presumptuous wench. Now leave, or you're going to get a big eyeful of Gideon Shaw.
~ Lisa Kleypas
He pulled the truck back onto the road and floored it, while the words ran through his mind in a constant loop. Don't leave. Don't leave.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Colibrí —susurró él—. Será mejor que se vaya. Si no lo hace, terminaré comprometiéndola de un modo como nunca creí posible.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I'm going with you," he said. She frowned. "No, thank you." "I insist." "I don't need your services, Mr. Rohan." Cam could think of a number of services she was clearly in need of, most of which would be a pleasure for him to provide. "Obviously it will be to everyone's benefit for you to retrieve Ramsay and leave London as quickly as possible. I consider it my civic duty to hasten your departure.
~ Lisa Kleypas
They exchanged a brief grin and Westcliff left the room. "Arrogant, high-handed creature," Lillian remarked, her smile lingering as she watched the earl's departure. "God, I adore him.
~ Lisa Kleypas
We knew you were approaching," Pandora said to Devon, "from all the happy voices we could hear in the entrance hall." "He's not accustomed to people exclaiming happily when he arrives," West said gravely. "Usually they do it when he leaves.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Faith's loyal servant," Nick assures him. "And everyone else's nightmare. The name is Nick Rogers." He doesn't extend his hand, nor does Bill extend his own. Bill's eyes narrow at the name. "I've heard you're a real bastard." "And here I thought I got rid of my nice guy reputation. I understand you're leaving. We'll walk you out.
~ Lisa Renee Jones
Scenic Route Someone was always leaving and never coming back. The wooden houses wait like old wives along this road; they are everywhere, abandoned, leaning, turning gray. Someone always traded the lonely beauty of hemlock and stony lakeshore for survival, packed up his life and drove off to the city. In the yards the apple trees keep hanging on, but the fruit grows smaller year by year...
~ Lisel Mueller
Someone was always leaving and never coming back. The wooden houses wait like old wives along this road; they are everywhere, abandoned, leaning, turning gray.
~ Lisel Mueller
Whatever the case, as long as she kept her feelings firmly entrenched in the "like" category, she'd be fine. Anything less than complete emotional vigilance would be dangerous; Owen was leaving in a few weeks, end of story.
~ Unknown
I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening,
~ Li-Young Lee
People left. They always did. There was no use getting his heart mixed up in something that was guaranteed to hurt.
~ Unknown
Beulah drifts deeper. Part of her knows tonight is the night she will not wake from her slumber. Come morning she will be gone, and this house will be Horton's.
~ Unknown
I'm going now," he said. "This is much too shocking. I need to—drink, I believe. Or fight. Something. I love you. That's what it is. That's what's happened. Yes.
~ Loretta Chase
I'll remember you," she promised and did as she'd promised herself she would, she walked away.
~ Jill Shalvis
I settled in and told Michael, Now, if only we had some Wagner to send us on our way. I saw Gard's reflection in the chopper's front windows look up at my words. Then she flicked a couple of switches, and Ride of the Valkyries started thrumming through the helicopter's cabin. Yee-haw, I said as my elbows and knees started a nagging ache. As long as we're going, we might as well go out in style.
~ Jim Butcher
Felicia managed to stagger to her feet, open the front door, and limp haltingly to the white limousine idling on the snowy street outside the house. Murphy went to the window to watch Felicia get into the limo and depart. Yeah, I said, deadpan. The little blond woman has two of them.
~ Jim Butcher
When you leave, you can leave a lot behind. Simple as that. And when you return the bad stuff has all disappeared in your absence because you were keeping it alive.
~ Jim Harrison
People loved to see him come, and they were sad to see him go.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Once when I asked you if you still loved your wife, you said, Love leaves the back door open. Later, you said, Love like a hospital gown opens at the back. And you slipped out.
~ Unknown
Always fare well to delay your farewell .
~ Unknown
Downsizing means you're about to become the guest of honor at a going-away party.
~ Anonymous