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Quotes About Return

On les avait chassés ; ils étaient redevenus sauvages avec la pureté et la simplicité des bêtes.
~ Jean Giono
I caught him with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world and still bring him back with a twitch upon the thread. —C. K. Chesterton, via Evelyn Waugh
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
Presente, huyes: ausente, te encuentro otra vez.
~ Jean Racine
If this book should ever roam, Box its ears and send it home.
~ Jean Webster
L'amour véritable vient de nous seuls et ne requiert aucun retour.
~ Jean-Christophe Rufin
That sense of some distant, unknown country from where she'd come and toward which she seemed to want to return.
~ Jean-Claude Izzo
I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Scoop a jar of water out of the ocean and put a lid on it," I tell them. "Study it in its segregated state. Where is the ocean in that jar? Where are the tides and the currents? Pour it back into the ocean and it returns to its integrated state. The temporary entity no longer exists.
~ Jed McKenna
People should always consider returning home.
~ JEFF ABBOTT
where he talked with railroad staff about their methods of scheduling arrivals and departures until Edison finally was ready to return to San Francisco on the 5:42 p.m. train.
~ Jeff Guinn
There is no road home.
~ Jeff Hirsch
ONE DISCOVERY It is easy to go down into Hell Ã¢â'¬Â¦; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air—there's the rub.… —VIRGIL, Aeneid
~ Jeff Long
En esos días aún creíamos en la noche sobresaltada de cantos y en el despertar gozoso del regreso.
~ Elena Garro
You're shaking … so am I. It's because of Jerusalem, isn't it? One doesn't go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That's one of its mysteries.
~ Elie Wiesel
If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would (hello!) find something else to love.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
This is not a novel about a woman leaving home, but rather a human being finding her way back.
~ Elizabeth Berg
as dark as the night gets without a moon, it is really not true darkness. It's just waiting for light to return.
~ Elizabeth Haydon
Be that as it may, a gentleman doesn't continue to press his attentions on a lady who can't return them." "Then, as I see it, you have two problems, my lord," Harry said. Tony's eyes narrowed. "One, that the lady does, in fact, return my attentions, and two"—Harry turned to meet the earl's gaze—"I am no gentleman.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
I have just returned from having surgery on the mercenary flagship—I was nearly killed when my ship was boarded, and I don't see any scars on you, sir. Don't push your luck.
~ Elizabeth Moon
Please come back soon. The window is always open.
~ Elizabeth Wein
I believed my motivations were clear: to help the patient see the pattern that had been imposed upon her, this endless repetition of being selected yet judged to be not exactly what was wanted, a purchase the buyer wished to return.
~ Ellen Ullman
The King's court was in no hurry to return to England, that late autumn of 1120, even though the fighting, somewhat desultory in these last stages, was long over.
~ Ellis Peters
They were up at six the following morning, November 5, and nearly everyone returned to the ship.
~ Alfred Lansing
I will go back to the great sweet mother,Mother and lover of men, the sea.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne