Parted Quotes
140 quotes by 129 authors
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Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer exists. They made…
— Nicole Krauss
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It was Buckley, as my father and sister joined the group and listened to Grandma Lynn’s countless toasts, who saw me. He saw me standing…
— Alice Sebold
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The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover.
— Peter S. Beagle
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I looked him in the eye, "I will always love you." Then plunged the stake into his chest. It wasn't as precise a blow as…
— Richelle Mead
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Do I feel ancient to you now?" he murmered. "Too different from the person you loved before you knew this?" Her eyes were already glowing…
— Jeaniene Frost
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There is a moment after death when things can go one of several ways, when souls can mingle and reunite-or be forever parted. Fate throws…
— Nancy Holder
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And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should…
— Haruki Murakami
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Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link…
— John Milton
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People parted, years passed, they met again- and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed…
— Jacqueline Susann
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And if I should leave you, for any reason," he added, tightening his grip as she struggled to free her hand, "I will return to…
— Sharon Shinn
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She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous,…
— Margaret Atwood
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I shift on to my side and find myself looking directly into Gale's eyes. For an instant the world recedes and there is just his…
— Suzanne Collins
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Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.
— William Shakespeare
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Then she did see it there - just a face, peering through the curtains, hanging in midair like a mask. A head-scarf concealed the hair…
— Robert Bloch
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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Then she waited, with parted lips and a saucy challenge in her eyes, to see how her presence -- the drama of being her --…
— Jonathan Franzen
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This parting cannot be for long; for those who love as we do cannot be parted. We shall always be united in thought, and thought…
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
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You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It could happen," Clary…
— Cassandra Clare
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Dachshunds have their own agenda and can be stubborn about seeing their plans through to completion. What Rosie lacked in consistency, she made up for…
— Mary Doria Russell
Who Wrote These Parted Quotes
129 authors contributed a total of 140 Parted Quotes, led by these top contributors: