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Quotes About Departure

Y eso se volvía más evidente conforme pasaba el tiempo, porque la mejor prueba de que una persona no va a volver es que no vuelva, ¿no?
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Por qué te vas?- He sentido que quiere gritar mi pecho, y en estos valles callados voy a gritar y no puedo. Y me dijo: ¿Adónde vas? Y le dije: Adonde el cielo esté más alto, y no brillen sobre mí tantos luceros. Hundió su mirada negra allá en los valles desiertos, y se quedó muda y triste, vagamente sonriendo.
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
El día que te fuiste entendí que no te volvería a ver. Ibas teñida de rojo por el sol de la tarde, por el crepúsculo ensangrentado del cielo; Sonreías. Dejabas atrás un pueblo del que muchas veces me dijiste: 'Lo quiero por ti; pero lo odio por todo lo demás, hasta por haber nacido en él'. Pensé: 'No regresará jamás; no volverá nunca.
~ Juan Rulfo
Él creía conocerla. Y aun cuando no hubiera sido así, ¿acaso no era suficiente saber que era la criatura más querida por él sobre la tierra? Y que además, y esto era lo más importante, le serviría para irse de la vida alumbrándose con aquella imagen que borraría todos los demás recuerdos.
~ Juan Rulfo
Keats was getting a reputation just when he was too ill to appreciate it or build on it: his country was taking notice of him just when he would have to leave it.
~ Jude Morgan
I loved him like a fever. Then he left. He kicked through love like it was dust and he kept on walking.
~ Judy Blundell
I shall have spent my life in railway stations Nearly departing For catastrophes, All for love And my heart haloed with the madness of love. Nothing is quite so beautiful as the trains I've missed …
~ Jules Laforgue
I'm leaving!" she said, with, in her opinion, great drama and resolve. But he just answered her with a sly half smile, and said, "I'm following." And the bloody man remained two strides behind her the entire way home.
~ Julia Quinn
I have to go out," she said, her words oddly curt and abrupt. "There"s something I need to do." "At half eight in the morning?" "I"ll be back soon," she said, hurrying toward the door. "Don"t go anywhere." "Well, damn," he tried to joke, "there go my plans to visit the King.
~ Julia Quinn
He smiled. Her stomach felt strange. She tried to smile back. She really should be going. So naturally, she did not move.
~ Julia Quinn
A few minutes later they were ensconced in his landau, the canopy pulled up tight.
~ Julia Quinn
It's hard to believe that someone is gone when he looks so normal and at peace.
~ Julia Quinn
His passions were never so out of control that he couldn"t manage a quick and decisive departure.
~ Julia Quinn
And then they left, and all was quiet, but it wasn't peaceful. Just empty.
~ Julia Quinn
I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.
~ Janet Jackson
I just want to get as far away from Indiana as possible.
~ Shawn Kemp
My decision to leave really doesn't indicate any displeasure with the NCAA. I love college athletics. I'm a big believer in that.
~ Oliver Luck
When a company makes a fundamental change, it is inevitable that some people will leave.
~ Cheryl Yeoh
My decision to leave 'Ween', however interpreted, was absolutely not made in haste.
~ Gene Ween
And he left. What discipline. I guess that is what they mean by "character" on the East Coast: leaving summer behind.
~ Eve Babitz
I felt that I was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went afterwards I should feel the lack of it, and search for it hopelessly, as ghosts are said to do, frequenting the spots where they buried material treasures without which they cannot pay their way to the nether world.
~ Evelyn Waugh
The Encounter" All the while they were talking the new morality Her eyes explored me. And when I rose to go Her fingers were like the tissue Of a Japanese paper napkin.
~ Ezra Pound
Criticism is not a circumscription or a set of prohibitions. It provides fixed points of departure. It may startle a dull reader into alertness.
~ Ezra Pound
And so, as quietly as he had lived, he slipped out of town, leaving only a note behind: Well, that's that. I'm off, and if you don't believe I'm leaving, just count the days I'm gone. When you hear the phone not ringing, it'll be me that's not calling. Goodbye, old girl, and good luck. Yours truly, Earl Adcock P.S. I'm not deaf.
~ Fannie Flagg