Bye Quotes - Page 9

• When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Two, Effort, World

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.329, A&C Black

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• I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

  Orson Scott Card

  Kissing, Doors, Kiss Me

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Shadow of the Hegemon”, p.123, Macmillan

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• If it had been a heart attack, the newspapermight have used the word massive,as if a mountain range had openedinside her, but insteadit used the word suddenly, a light coming onin an empty room. The telephonefell from my shoulder, a black parrot repeatingsomething happened, something awfula sunday, dusky. If it had beenterminal, we could have cradled heras she grew smaller, wiped her mouth,said good-bye. But it was sudden,how overnight we could be orphaned& the world became a bell we'd crawl inside& the ringing all we'd eat.

  Nick Flynn

  Heart, Sunday, Mountain Ranges

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• I think the way I feel when I look at Evan comes from her. In pictures taken the day she married my dad, she was reckless, laughing, spinning around in circles. She looked like her whole world was him. She looked a kind of happy I can't even imagine. I don't want that. I don't want to be like that. I don' want to feel the way she did because I know what happens when you do. You love with your whole heart, with everything, and you wake up one morning and kiss someone good-bye the way you always do except you mean it as good-bye forever.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Morning, Dad, Taken

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• - Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise? She shook her head. - That my admiration for you is painfully strong? - I want Van – she cried – and not intangible admiration. - Intangible? You goose. You my gauge it, you may brush it once very lightly with the knuckles of you gloved hand. I said knuckles. I said once. That will do. I can't kiss you. Not even your burning face. Good-bye, pet. Tell Edmond to take a nap after he returns. I shall need him at two in the morning.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Morning, Strong, Kissing

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• There's such an awkwardness to most heterosexual male relationships. You see women who are friends, and they kiss each other good-bye, and they're just so much warmer with each other. But there's this thing with guys where, even between best friends, there's a standoffishness.

  Todd Phillips

  Kissing, Guy, Males

  Interview With Stephen Mooallem, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Though ye loue not to bye the pyg in the poke,Yet snatche ye at the poke, that the pyg is in,Not for the poke, but the pyg good chepe to wyn.

  John Heywood

  Poke

  John Heywood (1867). “The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562): Reprinted from the Original (1562) Edition, and Collated with the Second (1566) Edition; with an Appendix of Variations”, p.80

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• And besides; the problem of land, at its worst, is a bye one; distribute the earth as you will, the principal question remains inexorable, Who is to dig it? Which of us, in brief word, is to do the hard and dirty work for the rest, and for what pay?

  John Ruskin

  Dirty, Land, Earth

  John Ruskin (1865). “Sesame and Lilies, etc”, p.69

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• Say good-bye to Dodd-Frank and all of the financial reforms and efforts to try to rein in Wall Street. Just say good-bye to it. That means we can go where Wall Street gets to call the shots again. We saw how that worked out in 2008.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Wall, Mean, Effort

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I say good-bye to hope, but I also say good-bye to hope's disappointment.

  David Levithan

  Disappointment, Good Bye, Saying Good Bye

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• She left for Juilliard the day after Labor Day. I drove her to the airport. She kissed me good-bye. She told me that she loved me more than life itself. Then she stepped through security. She never came back.

  Gayle Forman

  Airports, Labor Day, Juilliard

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Feb 27, 2014

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• His mother got her purse. His father reached for the door. "Scooter," he said, by way of good-bye, "have fun with your friends." But Hale was shaking his head. He put his arm around Kat's shoulders. "She's not my friend, Dad. She's my girlfriend." Hale's parents must have walked away, but Kat wasn't looking. She was too busy staring up at Hale, trying to see into his eyes and know if he was okay. The sadness that had lingered for weeks was fading, and the boy that held her was the boy she knew. A boy who kissed her lightly.

  Ally Carter

  Mother, Girlfriend, Fun

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• It is never a mistake to say good-bye.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mistake, Bokonon, Good Bye

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.152, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Here it comes," she said with an expression of pure bliss. "Drug rush ... any moment now ... the surge of warmth ... bye-bye, Mr. Pain..." "Vee-" "Knock, knock." "This is really important-" "Knock, knock." "It's about Elliot-" "Knock, knoooock," she said in a singsong voice. I sighed. "Who's there?" "Boo." "Boo who?" "Boo-hoo, somebody's crying, and it's not me!" She broke into hysterical laughter.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Laughter, Pain, Expression

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• Good night, sweetheart," he says. "Good bye, sweetheart," I say. And it's so casual, so innocent that he doesn't suspect a thing.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Good Night, Sweetheart, Innocent

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes." Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you." "Do you promise?""Yes.

  Thomas Harris

  Fighting, Promise, Lambs

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.231, Macmillan

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• Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.

  Rachel Caine

  Hate, Needs, Looks

  Rachel Caine (2013). “Fall of Night”, p.15, Allison & Busby

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• If that happens to us," she whispered, unable to wrap her mind around the idea of a life so long and so full of tragedy, "if we feel ourselves, who we are together, becoming lost in time, I don't want to Sleep. I want to say good-bye when I'm still me and you're still you.

  Nalini Singh

  Sleep, Ideas, Long

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• There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It's why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.

  Mitch Albom

  Doe, Digging, Hello

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• You either fainted or you wanted a much closer look at the cracks in the tile. Either way, you hit hard." "Seriously?" He nodded. "Maybe you shouldn't have been trying to make out with him," he suggested. How did he know that? "I was kissing him good-bye." He snorted and exchanged glances with the nurse. "That's not what it looked like to me." Probably not. But what happened? Could Reyes Farrow take control over me even from a freaking coma? I was doomed.

  Darynda Jones

  Kissing, Nurse, Trying

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.211, St. Martin's Press

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• Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Farewell, Greetings, Series

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer”, p.120, Hachette UK

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• Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over; One thing unshaken stays: Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance for lover; Whereby decays, Each thing save one thing: mid this strife diurnal, Of hourly change begot, Love that is God-born, bides as God eternal, And changes not; Nor means a tinseled dream pursuing lovers, Find altered by-and-bye, When, with possession, time anon discovers, Trapped dreams must die, - For he that visions God, of mankind gathers, One manlike trait alone, And reverently imputes to Him a father's love for his son.

  James Branch Cabell

  Life, Dream, Father

  "The Certain Hour (To Robert Gamble Cabell II: In Dedication of The Certain Hour)". Book by James Branch Cabell, 1916.

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• When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you," he said, and straightened, and turned to walk toward the door. The parchment robes of the Silent Brothers moved around him as he moved, and Tessa watched him, paralyzed, every pulse of her heart beating out the words she could not say: Good-bye. Good-bye. Good-bye.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Heart, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1386, Simon and Schuster

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• Goodbye Darcy, goodbye Jean, goodbye stone cottage, scratchy towels, fields of wildflowers; good bye gorgeous Peak District ... OK English People, for your own good, get off the roads, here we come!

  Susan Branch

  Goodbye, People, Wildflowers

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• The clothes are packed off to Goodwill I said my good-byes up on the hill The house is empty, the furniture sold Soon your smell will decay to mold Don't know why I bother calling, ain't nobody answering Don't know why I bother singing, ain't nobody listening "Disconnect" Collateral Damage, Track 10

  Gayle Forman

  Smell, Clothes, Track

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.48, Penguin

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