Leaving Quotes
1928 Leaving quotes by 1411 unique authors
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To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing…
— Dante Alighieri
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The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air,…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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My love for you won't stop with my leaving. Come an evening over the years, when you step outside your door and hear the wind…
— Penelope Williamson
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How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is…
— Douglas Coupland
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The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were…
— Erin Hunter
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the…
— Gaston Bachelard
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You don't make me feel like you used to. That's why I'm leaving That's why people leave each other They come to their senses and…
— Henry Rollins
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We?" I asked. Of course. I'm not leaving you alone on this, no matter what. You know I'd never abandon you.
— Richelle Mead
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You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life…
— Suzanne Collins
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Alexander tilted his head and kissed her deeply on the lips. He let go of her hands, and she wrapped her arms around his neck,…
— Paullina Simons
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He also tried to block the doorway when she left him. My mother ducked under his arm, ran to her car, and drove away. I…
— Sloane Crosley
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The front door shut, leaving Alec sitting in the half-lit garden, alone. He closed his eyes for a moment, the image of a face hovering…
— Cassandra Clare
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all bags are pack ready to go i am standing here outside your door i hate to wake you up to say goodbye dawn is…
— John Denver
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...she's leaving now. ... Janis attacks the back door of the school gym and finds herself in a heavy cloud of smoke. She realizes she's…
— Lisa McMann
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If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?" Make them stay." And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?"…
— Jodi Picoult
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Christ, how did you ever get this screwed up! his mind demanded of him. He knew the answer, but even that was not a full…
— Tom Clancy
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Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the…
— Terry Pratchett
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As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife,…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four…
— Albert Camus
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Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and…
— Albert Camus
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Had she been in town, the two of them would have spent most of the day together, and she didn't want that. Then again, deep…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as…
— Lewis Thomas
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I do know I felt as if my heart had been shredded when I found you in our storeroom, unconscious and bleeding. And leaving you…
— Maria V. Snyder
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