Going Away Quotes - Page 20

• There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

  James Joyce

  Doubt, Dublin, Succeed

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Past, Scar, Forget

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The other day upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today; how I wish he'd go away!" ~Gabrielle O'Callaghan towards Adam Black

  Karen Marie Moning

  Men, Black, Wish

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• It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Hurt, Errors, Squirrels

  Thomas M. Disch (1986). “The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

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• Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes part of you, step for step, breath for breath.

  Jandy Nelson

  Grief, Forever, Steps

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.163, Penguin

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• Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your heart they only die a little at a time, don't they? Like a plant when you go away on a trip and forget to ask a neighbor to poke in once in awhile with the old watering-can, and its so sad—

  Stephen King

  Letting Go, Heart, Want

  Stephen King (2016). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

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• Though if love was an animal, Garret knew, it would probably be the Loch Ness Monster. If it didn’t exist, that didn’t matter. People made models of it, put it in the water, and took photos. The hoax of it was good enough. The idea of it. Though some people feared it, wished it would just go away, had their lives insured against being eaten alive by it.

  Tao Lin

  Animal, Ideas, People

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• They had picked up Julie's scent hit wolfsbane lost her and found her trail again at the crumbling Highway 23 except it was two hours old and mixed with horse scents. She was hitchhiking. Great. Awesome. At least she always carried a knife with her. When I relayed this to Curran he shrugged and said, "If she kills anybody we'll make it go away.

  Ilona Andrews

  Horse, Knives, Two

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.88, Penguin

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• ... Why, it would really be being unselfish to go away and be happy for a little, because we would come back so much nicer.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Littles, Unselfish

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Enchanted April”, p.11, Jester House Publishing

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• Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

  Ellis Peters

  Giving Up, People, Enemy

  Ellis Peters (2015). “A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs”, p.74, Open Road Media

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• There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

  Sherman Alexie

  Pain, Addiction, Looks

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• Though her husband often went on business trips, she hated to be left alone. "I've solved your problem," he said. "I've bought you a St. Bernard. Its name is Great Reluctance. Now, when I go away, you shall know that I am leaving you with Great Reluctance!" She hit him with a waffle iron.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Husband, Names, Iron

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• Lovely,wonderful Isabelle.Could you please go away?Now is a really bad time." Isabelle looked from Magnus to her brother,and back again. "Then,you dont want me to tell you that Camille's just escaped from the Sanctuary and my mother is demanding that you come back to the Institute right now to help them find her?" "No,"Magnus said."I dont want you to tell me that" "Well,to bad"Isabelle said"Because it's true .I mean,I guess you dont have to go,but-

  Cassandra Clare

  Mother, Brother, Mean

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1541, Simon and Schuster

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• You just say the word, and I'll make the rest of the world go away. I'll take you someplace safe, where no one else can reach us.

  Rachel Vincent

  Safe, World

  Rachel Vincent (2011). “If I Die”, p.140, Harlequin

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• It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lonely, Eight, Years

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “White Nights: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.1, 谷月社

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• You two have to promise to be careful!" Sinead handed Amy a small plastic bag. "I made you a going-away present–a high-powered miniature smoke bomb. Could come in handy against the Vespers. It works with knockout gas, so I tossed in a couple of breathing filters." "That's the Cahill equivalent of a Hallmark moment," Dan observed. "A smoke bomb. When you care enough to send the very best–explosives." "I'm not a flowers-and-candy kind of girl," Sinead informed him.

  Gordon Korman

  Girl, Couple, Flower

  Gordon Korman, Scholastic Multi-Platform, (2011). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1: The Medusa Plot”, p.48, Scholastic Inc.

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• It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what you're going to do about them. But all you're doing is putting your problems up on a shelf for later, right? That doesn't make them go away.

  Fuyumi Ono

  Dream, Effort, Problem

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• We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of moments that could have been found but were forever hidden in the sands.

  Paulo Coelho

  Heart, Thinking, Forever

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• I am free, you see," she said, "to love or to withhold love. Love and dependence need no longer be the same thing to me. I am free to love. that is why I love you and it is the way I love you. If you have come here, Kit, because you think you owe me something, because you believe I might crumble without your protection, then go away again with my blessing and find happiness with someone else." "I love you," he said again.

  Mary Balogh

  Believe, Love You, Blessing

  Mary Balogh (2003). “A Summer to Remember”, p.336, Dell

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• She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. 'There,' said the large man. 'The kittens will make your sad go away.

  David Wong

  Cat, Men, Lap

  David Wong (2009). “John Dies at the End”, p.392, Macmillan

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• If u don't like warriors then i don't like u so go away u stalkers... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

  Erin Hunter

  Warrior, Ifs

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• Surprisingly, fainting sounded like a really good idea. If I fainted, I'd be unconscious, so I wouldn't have to see the impossible anymore, nor would I have to feel so dizzy and sick. Than maybe when I woke up, all of this would go away and I'd find it was all just a bad dream. The mist started to turn dark around the edges.....For the record: fainting sucks.

  Jenna Black

  Dream, Dark, Ideas

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• Morley put his hand over his heart and bowed from the waist, a gesture that somehow reminded Claire of Myrnin. It reminded her she missed him, too, which was just wrong. She should not be missing Morganville, or anyone in it. Especially not the crazy boss vampire who’d put fang marks in her neck that would never, ever go away. She was doomed to high-necked shirts because of him. But she did miss him.

  Rachel Caine

  Crazy, Heart, Hands

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Kiss of Death: The Morganville Vampires”, p.147, Penguin

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• Go away. I'm all right. [last words]

  H. G. Wells

  Lasts, Last Words

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• I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.

  Sarah Dessen

  Miles, Avoiding, Chosen

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.71, Penguin

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