separation

Eventually, some black thinkers believe, this "separation" may be the shortest route to an authentic communication at some future date when blacks and whites can enter into encounters in which they truly speak as equals and in which the white man will no longer load every phrase with unconscious suggestions that he has something to "concede" to black men or that he wants to help black men "overcome" their blackness.

It's terrible to have to fear that your powers will activate at any given moment. Especially when you draw close to people... and find that your only choice is to pull away. It's overwhelming when you find a time, a person, with which there's nothing to fear.

That is when time stands still - when you watch the one you love, walk away.

This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do - and wouldn't last.

The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that's when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell.

Maybe we tried to leave as much memories of ourselves with each other because we knew one day we wouldn't be together any more.

I carried around five tons of pain where she used to be.

The return journey was nothing like the arrival. Bea couldn__ wait to get out of the car. She remembered feeling like this before, with Brandon, on several occasions. It was an excruciating need to escape the confinement of being in too close a proximity to passive-aggressive behaviour. She hated conflict, after a row, it would take her hours, perhaps days to become fully relaxed and herself again. She became anxious, not entirely brought on by his coldness, but by old memories, and the way her body would instinctively react to them. It wasn__ a feeling that she wanted to experience with someone new, of whom she__ told his sister only a short time ago that she was falling in love with.

It never dawned on us that life is unpredictable, that one day, one of us could suddenly cease to exist and what then? What would be the joy in having left so much unsaid? With what memories would we fill the empty silence?

Lie beside me, oh my beloved! For thy thorns are more pleasurable than the petals of the world.Hold me in thy arms of hope, for the truth of separation can rest tonight.

It is better to believe an obvious lie, than to swallow a deceitful truth.

When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.

There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.

I have never been good at saying goodbyes to people. What else can they offer rather than a reciprocal desolation?

When two persons are too close, they fall apart.

What separates us into engineers and robots, puppeteers and puppets, kings and pawns, is not the status we hold at any given time among others - status is irrelevant; it is the level of ever-present awareness we have of a grey-matter tailor's tools [of flattery, persuasion, and cunning.]

Marriage to the groom does not means that his heart belongs to the bride.

Sometimes saying goodbye to the ones you love can be the most appropriate thing to do in order to help them understand there are consequences for each and every choice we make.