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Quotes About Return

I love going out of my way, beyond what I know, and finding my way back a few extra miles
~ Rebecca Solnit
Poem by Cold Mountain Looking for a refuge Cold Mountain will keep you safe a faint wind stirs dark pines come closer the sound gets better below them sits a gray-haired man chanting Taoist texts ten years unable to return he forgot the way he came Translated by Red Pine
~ Red Pine
If you love something, set it free; if it comes backs it's yours, if it doesn't, it never was.
~ Richard Bach
If you love somebody, set them free. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were
~ Richard Bach
He died on his return to New York. He died on the gangplank, just a few feet away from America. He didn't quite make it. His hat did though. It rolled off his head and down the gang-plank and landed, plop, on America. Poor devil. I heard it was his heart, but the way the Chinese dentist described the business, it could have been his teeth.
~ Richard Brautigan
This enemy you cannot kill," I murmured. He nodded and finished the quote for me. "You can only drive it back damaged into the depths and teach your children to watch the waves for its return.
~ Richard K. Morgan
What, exactly, is a father if not a man who, once you're grown and gone and out in the world making your own mistakes, all good advice be damned, waits patiently for you to return? And if you don't, well then, you don't. He understands that risk. He knows whose choice it is.
~ Julia Glass
And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us of time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing - until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.
~ Julian Barnes
You only followed where you were going if you wanted to get back to where you had started from, and she knew that was impossible.
~ Julian Barnes
At least by now he was familar with the patterned patternlessness of the life he was submitting to again. His reappearance was greeted not with happiness or relief, but with a blithe lack of surprise. Because such a return was always going to happen. Because young men must be allowed their delinquencies, but shouldn't be congratulated when they returned to a place they should never have left.
~ Julian Barnes
Treba paziti kuda se ide samo ako se želi vratiti tamo odakle se pošlo,...
~ Julian Barnes
Estás despierto, despierto de verdad. Asiente y dice: —Más o menos. —Me alegro de que hayas vuelto. —Y es verdad, no cabe en sí de felicidad—. ¡Has vuelto de veras! —Nunca me fui. —Me salvaste en el río. —Y tú a mí aquí.
~ Julianna Baggott
She was a creature of the deep, and there she must return, or perish. Toby understood that, but it hardly helped him. For all he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness.
~ Juliet Marillier
Goodbye Curly. I'll see you next summer. Keep out of trouble, now, until I come back.
~ Juliet Marillier
We head for the mainland, and the long journey home.
~ Juliet Marillier
Dar chiar ÅŸi cu bilete dus-întors, dac? punctul de plecare era diferit, destinaÅ£ia era, fireÅŸte, ÅŸi ea diferit?. Åži n-ar fi deloc straniu dac? biletul lui de întoarcere ar fi de fapt biletul ei de plecare.
~ K?b? Abe
A letter with no address is simply returned, no matter how many stamps one puts on it.
~ K?b? Abe
it would be well if I believed the child's eyes with complete confidence. Wouldn't anybody first have to return to this kind of intuition if he sincerely wanted to face others?
~ K?b? Abe
Alles, was du liebst, geht sehr wahrscheinlich verloren, aber am Ende wird die Liebe auf andere Weise zurückkehren.
~ Kafka Franz
A lengthy and painful discussion followed. It lasted through tea and dinner. It was revealed to Lady Beatrice that, though she had been sincerely mourned when Mamma had been under the impression she was dead, her unexpected return to life was something more than inconvenient. Had she never considered the disgrace she would inflict upon her family by returning, after all that had happened to her? What were all Aunt Harriet's neighbors to think?
~ Kage Baker
Jedes Buch ist ein Ort an den man wieder und wieder zurück kehren kann.
~ Kai Meyer
changed the course of history, but the process was not yet complete. It was only when Jesus returned at the Parousia that "we shall all be changed" and "death be swallowed up in victory."64 Then and only then would Christ establish the Kingdom, "deposing every sovereignty, authority, and power."65
~ Karen Armstrong
Will let out a long breath. She leaves me a lot. That's what she does. She leaves, and then she comes back. And then she stays some and then she leaves again. Where does she go? I have no idea. You've never asked her? No. Sara Didn't pretend to understand. Why not?. He glanced out into the street, watching the traffic zoom by. It's complicated.
~ Karin Slaughter
Your mother was not surprised to hear me say this. This was a time when the pendulum of hope still swung back and forth between us, so that some days she took to her bed with sorrow and some days she came home from the store with a shirt or a sweater or a pair of jeans that she would give you when you returned home to us.
~ Karin Slaughter