Joe Hill Quotes

How is it possible that a boyfriend ceases to exist from one day to another?

I loved everything about marriage. I loved having a companion to wake up with and have barbecues with. But things happen and people grow apart.

A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and let go?

You develop relationships with people, and suddenly a family of actors and crew that you became so close to are now not around anymore. I'm not too sad about it because I got to move on to something else, but it's sad the way these things turn out.

People grow apart, and sometimes, there nothing anyone can do about it.

Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

There was, like, this black hole where the world used to be, and we were both falling toward it. What could we hold on to?

As ships becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail, at dawn of day Are scarce, long leagues apart, descried.

Don't run away. Im not running away. Im already gone. -Lena and Ethan

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

The hippogriff took off into the air. . . . He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them . . . then a cloud drifted across the moon. . . . They were gone.

I can see myself watching him shave every morning. And at other time I see us in that house and see how one bright day (or a day like this, so cold your mind shifts every time the wind does) he will wake up and decide it's all wrong. I'm sorry, he'll say. I have to leave now.

Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through.

At the same time, though, I was beginning to wonder if this was just how it was supposed to be for me, like perhaps I wasn't capable of having that many people in my life at any one time. My mom turned up, Nate walked away, one door opening as another clicked shut.

It is hard to hold on to friendships when people move away to another state or to another world.

Until, one day, she wasn’t.

He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

There is a chasm between me and the world outside of me. A gap so wide my feelings can't cross it. By the time my screams reach the other side, they have dwindled into groans.

Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.

Bob wasn't precisely a friend to me but... I was used to him. In a way he was family, the mouthy, annoying, irritable cousin who was always insulting you but who was definitely at Thanksgiving dinner. I had never considered the possibility that one day he might be something else.

Talking about the future, like we had a clue. Never plans that one day, I'd be losing you

I lost you once, I think I can do it again.

What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.