Eydie Gorme Quotes

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.

I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.

I'm ultimately a widow and a single mother, who's not even getting to be a mother right now. I am so alone, it's freaky.

I'm homesick all the time. I miss my animals. I miss my family. I miss my friends.

I was divorced when my children were young, so I was a single mother for a while. It's so hard to have to do every little thing yourself and be forced to navigate the rocky emotions of motherhood alone.

If you go away on location for three months and your wife stays at home, you've made a whole new load of friends and she's made a whole new load of friends and you get home and you're kind of strangers.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

The distance, being far away from your home, from your family, that's not easy. There are times when you say, 'Wow, what a fight, what a battle.'

Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone.

Being away from my family for six months a year - even if it was in the beautiful surroundings of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean - was just too hard.

I miss my family all the time.

I can't stand another night in a hotel. Just being away. You miss the kids.

When I was nine years old, my father went to Spain to work for three years, and I was in Portugal. He has a sports store. I only saw him once a month, which was difficult. I was alone with my mother and my sister, who is younger than me.

I miss my family every single day.

This is the hardest part of military family life - being away from each other.

I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home, and here is this girl I love and cannot follow. I hope this is the hero’s errand, because not following her is the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.

...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.

I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.

I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

Billy wanted me to stay a safe distance from the most important person in my life. It turned out that his concern was, in the end, unnecessary. I was all too safe now.

She sleeps alone at last.