Quotes About Departure

I take it you're going." "Of course. Do you want to come with me?" She looked at him steadily. "If you hadn't shown me the telegram, I would have thrown the teapot at you. If you hadn't asked me to come, I would have thrown the teapot and the milk jug." "Lucky I did then," he said, smiling.

You realize, of course, that this is the first time we've been separated since we were married." "I do. But it won't be for long." He kissed her, closed the carriage door and, as it moved off, signaled to a waiting four-wheeler.

She bowed. A long, slow, stiff bow from the waist. The bow of a Prussian officer in a social setting with civilians, feeling uncomfortable, waiting to leave.

men come by, looking for her since she left." "Have you heard from her?" "Not directly, but one of the girls that used to work here heard from her. She said Chantal

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

leaving just before midnight

about being thrown out of the B&B.

Lento separóse de la gradinata el Hombre que vio a la Partera.

When it left, death didn't even close our eyes.

I ate sitting in the kitchen in silence, thinking about future. I saw tornadoes, hurricanes, tidal waves, fire. Then I washed the frying pan, plate and silverware, brushed away the crumbs and unbolted the door to the courtyard. Before I left, I turned out the light.

Ambos habíamos nacido más o menos por las mismas fechas. Ambos habíamos rajado de nuestras respectivas Repúblicas, cuando pasó lo que pasó.

I got to be going anyway," said Michaels. "Good

The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt.

When are you leaving?" "As soon as I can. I've waited for weather, I've gathered my information and regained my Skill. I've tightened my muscles and renewed some skill with a blade. So much time I had to waste." "Sharpening your knife is never a waste of time. You've finally learned that. Not an apprentice any longer, nor even a journeyman. This makes you a master.

Fool," I began. "Yes. I am that," he said, and left.

Travel became distinguishable from pain and began to be regarded as an intellectual pleasur...These factors--the voluntariness of departure, the freedom implicit in the indeterminancies of mobility, the pleasure of travel free from necessity, the notion that travel signifies autonomy and is a means for demonstrating what one 'really' is independent of one context or set of defining associations--remain the characteristics of the modern conception of travel. Eric Leed

Todd grabbed her, wrapped his arms around her, and kissed her soundly. Then he leaped onto the train and waved goodbye as if he were a soldier going off to war.

you know no one wanted to see the old boy go. I bet where ever he is, the fishing's good" "Given his surely behavior, the fish might be fried where he is,

Okay." "Thanks, bye." Bennie left the conference room, met

You're leaving, she said, rising to her feet. I knew it was coming. How? I'm your mother. You're the breath of my lungs and the beat of my heart. I know you very well.

Let me see you going but never coming back.

God knows the hour of each person's passing. Whatever we did or didn't do for someone we loved, the timing of his or her departure was God's alone. Thy will be done is more than a prayer request. It's a forgone conclusion.

Bethan, gleeful, left

It's bye-bye to you, Gabe, in the morning," Father had said, in his sweet, sing-song voice.