#farewell

Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book. ↗

— Robert Reed

#arms #before #book #came #deal

We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked up at each other for the last time. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#goodbye #kerouac #love #love

A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#farewell #four #friend #her #interview

One day I may be meeting you and hearing how you've changed your life by saying, 'Farewell to Fat'. ↗

— Richard Simmons

#day #farewell #fat #hearing #how

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#separation #separation

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#farewell #noir #velma #love

Okay Marlowe,' I said to myself. 'You're a tough guy. You've been sapped twice, choked, beaten silly with a gun, shot in the arm until you're crazy as a couple of waltzing mice. Now let's see you do something really tough - like putting your pants on.'" line from Farewell My Lovely 1944. ↗

— Phillip Marlow

#love

I believe that sometimes, the moment you say goodbye could be as painful as a lifetime worth of pain that you can experience while living with the memories of your loved ones. I couldn’t stop myself from hallucinating about all those things that could have happened, while you were walking away from me today. I stopped walking and turned my head, expecting for you to do the same. I stayed there, motionless, and waited – for you to turn once, to smile, or wave. But you didn’t. You just continued walking away from me, while I stayed there watching your silhouette becoming smaller, and smaller with time, until it disappeared completely. There was nothing else to wait. “What happened?” she asked me when I turned my head again towards the platform. “She let me go, finally,” was all I could say. ↗

— Bhavya Kaushik

#goodbye #grief #letting-go #life #love