Separation Quotes
For all our mutual experienceOur separate conclusions are the sameNow we are forced to recognize our...
Show More
Come, Paul!" she reiterated, her eye grazing me with its hard ray like a steel stylet. She pushed ag...
Show More
The spring which moved my energies lay far away beyond seas, in an Indian isle.

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

Getting out of a marriage is rough, though, and not just for the legal / financial complications or ...
Show Moretheir eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. T...
Show More
This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do...
Show More
In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make...
Show MoreA dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: ...
Show More
Methinks I lied all winter, when I sworeMy love was infinite, if spring makes it more.
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic pre...
Show MoreI believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic pre...
Show MoreIt was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before t...
Show MoreThe distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.
You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then ...
Show More
There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love w...
Show More
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

I said uselessly, "Sam, don't go."Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eye...
Show More
He loved her; in some ways he was devoted to her. But he couldn't reach her, and it was the same on ...
Show More
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we wer...
Show More
Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means tha...
Show More
[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between...
Show More
It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence o...
Show More
My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.

Nor do I want the woman that I’m married to and that I love to leave me, but the thought of her doin...
Show More
What is certain is this, that I never rested in that way again, my feet obscenely resting on the ear...
Show More
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other every...
Show MoreScrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I ca...
Show MoreWhat do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's...
Show More
The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell.His absence wasn’t a problemB...
Show MoreOh, Mercédès, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the cro...
Show MoreHow had it happened that when choosing the men and women who were to be torn from this subjugated pl...
Show More
Why wasn't there an etiquette book for runaway wives?
In short, the man displayed a constant and insurmountable impulse to wrap himself in a covering, to ...
Show More
A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he...
Show More
We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anythi...
Show More