#Leaving

"I give you this to take with you:Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you canbegin again, with pure joy in the uprooting."

"You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be."

"It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

"Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave."

"Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?"

"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere."

"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."

"...they needed someone to explain, to spin, the parts of the tale that couldn't be suppressed. Someone reputable and educated. Someone brilliant yet absolutely committed to the faith. Someone like my father."

"I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving."

"Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out."

"I'm moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn't clear. If people think you're leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they're coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I'm just moving on right now."

"It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay."- China Sorrows -"

"Things go away to return, brightened for the passage"

"Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that."

"To leave, after all, was not the same as being left."

"You get use to someone—start to like them, even—and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves."

"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."

"We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there."

"I love you. I love you. I send this message through my fingers and into his, up his arm and into his heart. Hear me. I love you. And I'm sorry to leave you."

"I'm guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I'm done, I'm done."