Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

The game isn't the same when we're apart.

There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.

You don't fully appreciate your band until you're away from them.

Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.

The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.

Relationships are temporary, friendships are forever! Unless they sleep with your boyfriend!

It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The child I had been was gone with the child she had been. We were new people, and we didn't know each other anymore. I shook my head desperately.

I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.

I think my friends tell me their deepest darkest secrets only because they know it won't ever come out.

But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!

As in all Abercrombie's books, friends turn out to be enemies, enemies turn out to be friends; the line between good and evil is murky indeed; and nothing goes quite as we expect. With eye-popping plot twists and rollicking good action, Half a King is definitely a full adventure.

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

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

I'll be back so soon you won't have time to miss me. Look after my heart I've left it with you

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.

It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.