#Leaving

"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?"

"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."

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

"I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"The going rate for love is going away. And the more you go away, the more expensive it gets."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."

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

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

"...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."