#separation

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I. ↗

I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#family #relationships #separation #family

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home. ↗

— Richard Bach

#freedom #home #plane #separation #freedom

They adore you beacause they think you offer up your friendship and ask for nothing in return. But that's not true-' He took a deep breath. 'You do ask for something. You ask that we never expect you to need us. ↗

— Kamila Shamsie

#need #separation #friendship

It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination. ↗

— John Irving

#divorce #separation #imagination

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#separation #love

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#letting-go #love #loving #separating #separation

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. ↗

— Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

#long-distance-love #longing #love #separation #love

I still wake with your name on my lips every morning. ↗