Quotes About Departure

I am running away but I prefer to call it a strategic retreat.

separated from you. I

Municipal Airport.

and drove out, his beautiful horse hitched behind. Adelina called, "Remember to take the roadway!" He raised his hand

Lo cierto es irse. Quedarse es ya la mentira, la construcción, las paredes que parcelan el espacio sin anularlo.

Cuando de mañana se lavan la cara, les acaricio las mejillas, les lamo la nariz y me voy, vagamente seguro de haber hecho bien.

Sie zogen sich an] und stießen sich ab, wie es sein soll, wenn die Liebe nicht als Kitschbild oder als Romanze ohne Worte enden soll.

Estaba lugubre como cuando la sombra de Helene viene a habitarlo. A deshabitarlo

Como si un día, de pronto, las gentes hubieran levantado sus cabezas de la tierra, después de tantos siglos, y hubieran descubierto la miseria en que vivían y la posibilidad de remediarla en otra parte. Nadie volvió jamás. Nadie volvió siquiera para llevarse algunas de las cosas que aquí se habían dejado. Y, así, poco a poco, igual que muchos pueblos del contorno, Ainielle fue quedándose vacío, solitario y vacío para siempre.

You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.

Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.

She blew out of the Terrace sometime before Christmas to points unknown. The Gujarati guy told me when I ran into him at the Pathmark. He was still pissed because Pura had stiffed him almost two months' rent. Last time I ever rent to one of you people. Amen, I said.

I can see myself watching him shave every morning. And at other time I see us in that house and see how one bright day (or a day like this, so cold your mind shifts every time the wind does) he will wake up and decide it's all wrong. I'm sorry, he'll say. I have to leave now.

God invented Iowa, he always said, so people could leave it and never come back.

This is where we leave you. The sentries at the gate will tell you what to do.

God invented Iowa, he always said, so people could leave it and never come back. She wondered what she would do.

See you in the fall.

Getting out of the briar tangle was significantly harder than getting in . . . The brambles ran their fingers down his face and tugged at his clothes like children wanting attention, as if they were sorry to see him go.

Sometimes," she said, "two people pass each other by, look into each other's eyes for a moment, and all that's left is a wish. A dream of what might have been. And then they move away from each other with every step, and away from all their dreams.

Be gone. You are not welcome here, Beast.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Oh, do shut up, boy. It's not like I've ever been one for goodbyes.", FADE by Kailin Gow

At least when somebody's suffocating, you can tell: you see their faces turn blue, their lips quiver, their eyes buck, and their throats jerk. But when a man is mentally packing his bags the suitcase is never out until he's already standing on the other side of the door.

Passerby, do not wish me well with your sour heart. Go away. And I shall be well by your being gone.

But when the English leave, they'll be going home.