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reuniting Quotes

15 of the best book quotes about reuniting
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“I did not want to find her aged and broken; I really dreaded it. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions. I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”
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“I like to see people reunited, maybe that’s a silly thing, but what can I say, I like to see people run into each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone…”
03
“But I thought I’d have a look and see how Mrs. Cotton was keeping, and you, Rosie.”
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“And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.”
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“The gray-green surface changes to the bright colors of our three images, sharpening and deepening all at once. And although we don’t speak, I know we all see it: Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish.”
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“Nothing but bonfires: the oracle is fulfilled; the king’s daughter is found: such a deal of wonder is broken out within this hour that ballad-makers cannot be able to express it.”
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“It would be hard to explain, but if you ever get there, come find me. Nothing would ever pull us apart.”
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“The next thing she knew she was trying to hug a jumping, panting, wriggling Jack, who lapped her face and hands with his warm wet tongue.”
09
“The train lurches hard from side to side. Enrique holds on with both hands.”
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“People come here to prosper. You have nothing here. What have you accomplished?”
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“He hugs María Isabel and Aunt Rosa Amalia. Then he steps off.”
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“In spite of everything, Enrique has failed again - he will not reach the United States this time, either. He tells himself over and over that he’ll just have to try again.”
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“You will, little one. You saved her life, after all. Someday you will find her again. Someday the war will end. All wars do.”
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I could not say that I remembered him, for now he was a fine grown young fellow, with black whiskers and a man’s voice, but I was sure he knew me, and that he was Joe Green, and I was very glad. I put my nose up to him, and tried to say that we were friends. I never saw a man so pleased.
Source: Chapter 49, Paragraph 16
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“Well, well,” said Candide, “I find that I shall be the only happy man when I am blessed with the sight of my dear Cunegonde.”
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Source: Chapter 25, Paragraph 41
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