Bye Quotes - Page 11

• Saying hello to something new means saying good-bye to something old and loved.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Mean, Saying Hello, Something New

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Incredibly Alice”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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• Your friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Kindness, Father, Today

  Sathya Sai Baba (1988). “Education in human values”

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• The importance of our connection, what it meant to find each other again, the way it made what happened to us and between us not be a waste, not be for nothing. He would know, he had to know, that not saying good-bye would be the worst end of all.

  Sara Zarr

  Connections, Would Be, Way

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• I have had passionate kisses and fierce ones, kisses so sweet they tasted like pure honey and kisses that cut like knives, but until this moment, I’ve never had one that said both hello and good-bye.

  Ann Aguirre

  Sweet, Cutting, Kissing

  Ann Aguirre (2011). “Aftermath”, p.257, Penguin

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• I drove off, with my friends watching me go, all of them grouped on Lissa's hood. As I pulled onto the road, I glanced into the rearview and saw them: they were waving, hands moving through the air, their voices loud, calling out after me. The square of that mirror was like a frame, holding this picture of them saying good-bye, pushing me forward, before shifting gently out of sight, inch by fluid inch, as I turned away.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving, Squares, Mirrors

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.223, Penguin

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• Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Song, Farewell, Butterfly

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• That's right. You'll like Owl. He flew past a day or two ago and noticed me. He didn't actually say anything, mind you, but he knew it was me. Very friendly of him. Encouraging." Pooh and Piglet shuffled about a little and said, "Well, good-bye, Eeyore" as lingeringly as they could, but they had a long way to go, and wanted to be getting on. "Good-bye," said Eeyore. "Mind you don't get blown away, little Piglet. You'd be missed. People would say `Where's little Piglet been blown to?' -- really wanting to know. Well, good-bye. And thank you for happening to pass me.

  A. A. Milne

  Past, Two, Long

  Milne, George, Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), Shepard, Ernest H. (1977). “The World of Pooh : the Complete Winnie-The-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner”, McClelland and Stewart, 1989

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• Be kind to one another. Bye, bye.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Be Kind, Kind, Bye Bye

  FaceBook post by Ellen DeGeneres from Dec 17, 2012

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• I got to play Kim in Bye Bye Birdie, Sandy in Grease, and Maria in The Sound of Music. And it was so much fun for me, but the thing that I looked forward to the most was at the cast parties. After the shows they had karaoke machines set up and that's when I could sing country music.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Fun, Party

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• She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp. Would they be lost in a sea of fat? She counted her ribs bone by bone. Where would they go?

  Steven Levenkron

  Hands, Sea, Anorexia

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• When the end comes, dark and hungry I'll be alone, love When the end comes, black and starving I'll say good-bye, love.-from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dark, Black, Golden

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• It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Games, Someone You Love

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

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• Before I went to the Mess I made the excuse I wanted to get something out of my aeroplane, and climbed into the cockpit; I did this, however, to be able to say good-bye to the old dear; and I really felt dreadfully sorry to part with her. I get very attached to aeroplanes, and I am one of those people who think that they aren't so inanimate as we are told they are.

  Charles Rumney Samson

  Sorry, Thinking, People

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• Right before I was escorted to the jail, Fawn waved bye bye to me. I smiled. My empty, pointless life for hers. Not bad.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Jail, Fawns, Empty

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Touch of Power”, p.15, MIRA

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• Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Atheist, Passion, Eye

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1810, Delphi Classics

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• I know I'm not going to say good-bye. And if these staggering refugees want to help, if they think they see something bigger here than a boy chasing a girl, then they can help, and we'll see what happens when we say yes while the rigor mortis world screams no.

  Isaac Marion

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• You sure you don’t want to kiss me good-bye, baby?

  Ilona Andrews

  Baby, Kissing, Want

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.107, Penguin

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• When I auditioned for 'Bye Bye Birdie' on Broadway, Gower Champion said, 'You've got the job!' I said, 'Mr. Champion, I can't dance.' He said, 'We'll teach you what you need to know.'

  Dick Van Dyke

  Jobs, Champion, Needs

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• Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.

  Jenny Downham

  Mind, Tess, Ifs

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.

  Sherman Alexie

  Way, Good Bye, Saying Good Bye

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• And we will be ready, at the end of every day will be ready, will not say no to anything, will try to stay awake while everyone is sleeping, will not sleep, will make the shoes with the elves, will breathe deeply all the time, breathe in all the air full of glass and nails and blood, will breathe it and drink it, so rich, so when it comes we will not be angry, will be content, tired enough to go, gratefully, will shake hands with everyone, bye, bye, and then pack a bag, some snacks, and go to the volcano.

  Dave Eggers

  Tired, Sleep, Glasses

  Dave Eggers (2013). “A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius: A Memoir Based on a True Story”, p.411, Simon and Schuster

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• I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.

  J. D. Salinger

  Goodbye, Hate, School

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• I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now. be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly. -Tally Youngblood

  Scott Westerfeld

  Love You, World, Ugly

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• We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of Jem. "Yawl write, hear?" he bawled after us.

  Harper Lee

  Writing, House, Said

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• It was the wife, John thought. And she was giving this tough guy a tongue-lashing. And the man was taking it. "Okay. I love you. Bye." Tohrment flipped the phone closed and put it in his pocket. When he focused on John again, he clearly respected his wife enough not to roll his eyes and make some macho, shithead comment about pesky women.

  J.R. Ward

  Love You, Eye, Men

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.1028, Penguin

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