John James Ingalls Quotes

Ready to go but never to return.

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.

You won't hear from me again.

I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.

Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

Whatever you're looking for, don't come around here no more.

You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.

When you leave a place, it's best to leave.

And she walked away, and she walked away, and that was that, and that was that.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return.

When I left here I left everything here. It's time to move on

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

I don't think you can ever return, really.

But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

What's the hurry? Are you afraid I won't come back?

After school the very next day, El Rey's mobile home was gone. I laid in bed and wondered what happens to people when they go, if they become like shadows, if they fade away when they disappear from your life. The only thing I could see was the broken picket fence. The only sound I could hear was the cry of birds being killed in the night.

When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.

Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.

So we keep asking, over and over,Until a handful of earthStops our mouths -But is that an answer?

Any parting could be forever, and we don't know.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

It is never a mistake to say good-bye.