Parted Quotes

“Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, Fault Lines

“Your eyes begin in my eyes which no longer see you. Begin in my voice which no longer speaks to you. Die out in my hands which no longer touch you. Your eyes are inscribed in my flesh. No one can bear to see me now. Sinister tattoo. I do the rain, I do the sun. For want of your eyes in my eyes.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, The Galloping Hour: French Poems

“Whenever you see redwoods in the National Geographic, or fog, or watch Shamu on TV, you'll be seeing me. Whenever you smell pine and spruce and day-old socks, that's me. Whenever you hear wind in the tops of trees, that's me, and whenever you taste crab and wine and Brie, that's me, and whenever the wind blows your hat off or you get under a cold shower, that's me. Whenever you read about an earthquake, that's me, sure as gun's iron. Whenever you smell wet dog, that's Curtis and me, and whenever you see a Rattus rattus, that's Forrest, and I'm right behind him. Never see me again? You'll never not see me. And I'll never not see you . . .Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.”
― Anne Rivers Siddons, Fault Lines

“Dr. Morris soon recognized that the difference between successful and unsuccessful marriages can often be traced to how well couples are able to "bond" during the courtship period. By bonding he referred to the process by which a man and woman become cemented together emotionally. It describes the chemistry that permits two previous strangers to become intensely valuable to one another. It helps them weather the storms of life and remain committed in sickness and health, for richer or poorer, for better or worse, forsaking all others until they are parted in death. It is a phenomenal experience that almost defies description.”
― James Dobson

“Only sometimes at night when I think that you live now and are somewhere, I shed tears.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“But she felt that she had to see him or she would die.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“I look into the mirror and i see nothing, only in darkness i feel myself, only in silence i hear myself. I have been parted into two, a body and a soul and i have no knowledge of which one i am living.”
― Neymat Khan

“Her thighs are parted and high. She holds her ankles in a wide invitation with her buttocks barely on the surface...”
― Bat Maxwell, The Color of Honey

“That which broke
inside me
when we were parted,
it has never mended,
its jagged pieces shifting
painfully every time
I rise in the morning
and all the day which follows.”
― Edward Lee