Coming Back Quotes

“Even though I always came back, he said he was always watching me leave.”
― Kimberly Novosel, Loved

“It’s well known that he who returns never left”
― Pablo Neruda

“Let the devil bar my way, I will come back to ye.”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea

“I don't want you back because you feel obligated to me, love," he said. "That's the devil of wedding vows - they make you do things for a person you maybe should run away from. Come back to me because you want to, not because you think you ought to. Do you understand?”
― Jennifer Ashley, The Many Sins of Lord Cameron

“Often it may seem that time has taken us very far from our origin. But if we take only a few more steps, we will round the corner and see a familiar place. And sometimes it may seem that in all our traveling we have returned to the place where we began. But although the view may be similar, it will never be identical; we should remember that there is no return.”
― Naomi Alderman, Disobedience

“I feel an irrational craving to gaze at his familiar face from this place of safety all night. But I can't. And I'm being stupid, because this isn't old Joe, whom I loved and understood. This is new Joe, who is cruel and inexplicable. They only look the same.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Party Crasher

“The ethical divide between showing up and coming back loomed large; it made me feel accused. This was respect, I thought: to look and keep looking, not to look away as soon as you'd gotten what you needed.”
― Leslie Jamison, Make It Scream, Make It Burn

“Io so e saprò sempre come trovarti per tornare da te..”
― Cristel Anna Notarianni, Bisbigliando - Sussurri di mezzanotte

“Nostalgia is missing what might come back.”
― Will Advise

“... she shut her heavy eyes. 'Why don't they sign up for training?'

He knew who she meant. 'Maybe they're not ready.'

'I thought they'd sign up.'

'Is that what you're upset about?' His question was so gentle, so sad.

Nesta opened her eyes. 'Some of them have been here for hundreds of years and still haven't been able to come back from what they endured. So what hope do I have?”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Life is a bell، how you ring it's sound going to come back to you.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“You told me it was like the fight for me is all you’ve ever known. I think about that a lot and someplace inside me, some secret place that I can only look at for a little bit at a time, I know you’re right. I know this because I’ve been fighting for you to come home. I’ve been screaming and dying and praying for you to come home, and it’s taken so long, but now it’s like you never left, and I can’t seem to fit that together in my mind.”
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“I’ve never told anyone this, but anytime that I’ve felt sad or alone or angry or upset, I would pray to God to just make you come back. That I would do anything He wanted me to do if only you would walk through my door. You were the only thing that made me feel safe when the earthquakes threatened to break me. I needed you to come home because when you’re not here, I don’t have a home.”
― T.J. Klune, Bear, Otter, and the Kid