#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?"

"She doesn’t want me to leave, and she doesn’t want me to stay. That’s a double helping of Doesn’t Want Me, and one big I’m Not Hungry back at her."

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

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

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

"I like tricks; I like to dazzle. Dribbling and leaving your opponent on his backside is what life is for. If I achieve what I want to, then I'll mark a distinct era in football. I'm the Che Guevara of modern soccer."

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

"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."

"...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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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