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Quotes About Reunion

I trotted down all three flights of stairs feeling weirdly happy. My sister was back. And at least I had one sort-of friend. You have to have gotten down pretty low before something as small as that starts to look like happy to you.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Hello old friend," he greeted it, "how strange for us to meet again, like this, with the snow blowing so outside." "You know my...my wrench?" "Of course I know it. It was not a wrench when we were last acquainted, but ones friends may change clothes and still one knows them.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
You come and go, vanish and appear. You miss years that go by for us, and we miss years that go by for you. We never know when we will find you again, or if we will. You meet us out of order, and sometimes I'll be older and sometimes you will be because that's the kind of story we're in. It's all jumbled up on the outside, but it all makes sense in your head. It all flows the right way in your heart.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
they were missing each other so much that all topics seemed to lead back to their separation and loss.
~ Cathy Glass
El sueño pesa sobre mis hombros y me acerca de nuevo a vos, al huequito de tu brazo, a tu respiración, a una continuación infinita de la batalla de sábanas y almohadas que empezamos y que pone risa y energía a nuestro cansancio.
~ Gioconda Belli
LA MADRE E il cuore quando d'un ultimo battito avrà fatto cadere il muro d'ombra per condurmi, Madre, sino al Signore, come una volta mi darai la mano. In ginocchio, decisa, Sarai una statua davanti all'eterno, come già ti vedeva quando eri ancora in vita. Alzerai tremante le vecchie braccia, come quando spirasti dicendo: Mio Dio, eccomi. E solo quando m'avrà perdonato, ti verrà desiderio di guardarmi. Ricorderai d'avermi atteso tanto, e avrai negli occhi un rapido sospiro.
~ Giuseppe Ungaretti
Nicotine and alcohol embraced in my system like long-parted siblings, grateful to me for reuniting them.
~ Glen Duncan
I will come back to you. And you will come back to me. Wait for me.
~ Glen Duncan
Clarissa: Talbot, it is so delightful to have you back again. I shall now have such charming evenings with you at chess. Talbot: At what? Clarissa: Chess — the king of games. Talbot: Do you call it a game? Ha! ha! No, thankee; life's too short for chess.
~ H. J. Byron, Our Boys, 1875
Anne felt sad. People parted, years passed, they met again Ã¢â'¬â€ and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been.
~ Jacqueline Susann
Just then the cottage door opened – and a tall, broad-shouldered man strode in, smelling of fresh air and honest toil. He looked around the room and then stood still, looking stunned. 'Hetty – oh, my Hetty!' he cried. 'Jem!
~ Jacqueline Wilson
his lost princess and his queen; but when this
~ James A. Michener
She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away.
~ James Baldwin
He was waiting, I think, for me to cross that space and take him in my arms again—waiting, as one waits at a deathbed for the miracle one dare not disbelieve, which will not happen.
~ James Baldwin
Then I took her in my arms and something happened then. I was terribly glad to see her. It really seemed, with Hella in the circle of my arms, that my arms were home and I was welcoming her back there. She fitted in my arms, she always had, and the shock of holding her caused me to feel that my arms had been empty since she had been away.
~ James Baldwin
When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.
~ James Crumley
I was right in the middle of a story and leading to a punch line and then I just heard 'John John' and I just looked around. I could see someone in the shadows walking forward and he said 'John I can't find me seat lad, d'ya know where me seat is?' I looked at him and it was my uncle Dave.
~ John Bishop
My God, it's laundry and family when I come back home. I've got to see my brother and kids, and my sister-in-law, my aunts, my uncles, cousins; everybody is here.
~ Jessie Reyez
They always come back, but we don't always answer.
~ Dominic Riccitello
It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.
~ Selma Lagerlöf
Since I was a little girl, my family has taken a holiday to Cornwall every spring half-term.
~ Kate Garraway
I have discovered France's best-kept secret. Reunion is an island of some 970 square miles situated in the Indian Ocean south-west of Mauritius and east of Madagascar.
~ Carol Drinkwater
Sex and the City: The Movie' - a bit like the All Saints comeback, and the return of the Jammy Dodger, it feels a little staged and all wrong.
~ Claudia Winkleman
[To the man who came up to her at a party and exclaimed effusively, 'Tallulah! I haven't seen you for 41 years!':] I thought I told you to wait in the car.
~ Tallulah Bankhead