Top 100 Walked Away Quotes
#1. The attraction between them was incendiary, yet somehow twelve years ago she'd walked away from as if he meant nothing.
Katie Reus
#2. I love you Travis. I've loved you since the day I met you. It killed me that you walked away, but it was the right thing to do. We weren't ready. We weren't ready because we weren't complete. We needed to wait for Gage to find us.
Nicole Edwards
#3. She walked away from him, and as he watched her go, he found that the terrible weight in his stomach seemed to have lessened slightly. The
J.K. Rowling
#4. It was actually the opposite of what a director once said to me. He said, 'Remember, everyone is here to serve you.' And as he walked away, I thought to myself, 'It's exactly the opposite: I'm here to serve everyone.
Rob Marshall
#5. I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
Nancy Pelosi
#6. If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.
Jack Johnson
#7. I walked away, hoping my words would linger after me. The game was over, and they couldn't be left doubting that.
Kiera Cass
#8. When you walked away from me last night, I felt like a piece of me had left with you. All I wanted in that moment was to get into that cab with you, put my arms around you and tell you that everything was going to be okay, because I love you.
Monica Alexander
#9. Eli had shone a light into my world, he'd lit up the dark corners just by existing and even if I walked away now, I knew I'd ache for him.
E.M. Denning
#10. Five minutes, I said, and walked away, but my heart was still going just as fast as before. This was only half over. Was it five minutes until I pulled this off? Or five minutes to live?
James Patterson
#11. I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.
Howard Schultz
#12. A ghostly smile flickered across his face. "If you weren't so psychotic, you'd be fun to hang around."
"Funny, I feel that way about you too." He didn't say anything else, but the smile grew, and he walked away.
Richelle Mead
#13. Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away
Norman Mailer
#14. [Keenan] 'What am I going to do?' He sank to the floor.
[Donia] 'Hope that some of us are kinder to you than you've been to us,' she whispered. Then, before she could soften again, she walked away and left the Summer King kneeling in her foyer.
Melissa Marr
#15. I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
Hannah Gadsby
#16. I know six years is a big break. But I never walked away from music. I never released an album because I wanted to do a different album, something I have never done before,
Hadiqa Kiani
#17. Legitimate First watched them go as they walked away. Sergeant Colon felt he was being measured up.
"I've always wondered about his name," said Nobby, turning and waving. "I mean ... Legitimate?"
"Can't blame a mother for being proud, Nobby," said Colon.
Terry Pratchett
#18. Take a table and I'll join you in a second.'
When he walked away I did something I couldn't be scolded for doing.
I checked out his ass in his jeans and ... that looked good.
Stephanie Witter
#19. And the farther I walked away, the more upset I got, at the loss of one of the few stable and unchanging docking-points in the world that I'd taken for granted: familiar faces, glad greetings ...
Donna Tartt
#20. You've got a lot to say for the one who walked away.
Stacy Morris
#21. And they walked away together through the hole in the wall, back into the darkness,
Neil Gaiman
#22. I Should've walked away. Now, it's too late. It's too fucking late for both of us.
Lara Adrian
#24. For so long I'd thought about myself as a girl who'd walked away from her mother's life that it would be a long time before I would start to think about the other part of the bargain, how easily she'd let me go.
Anna Quindlen
#25. I turned and walked away then shook my head when Alec chose to walk behind me instead of beside me.
"Don't shake your head, if he wants an ass to stare at he will have to make do with mine.
L.A. Casey
#27. After what happened with Valerie "Santamaria" Statham, I had expected his stress level to go through the roof, but true to his habit of surprising everybody, he tendered his resignation and just walked away "to pursue other opportunities".
Joe Schreiber
#28. Ask Bill Clinton about Yasir Arafat. Clinton and Barak did everything they could in 2000 at Camp David. Arafat walked away from it.
Peter T. King
#29. This is so cool," I said as Dad walked away. "Have you met the tattoo artist? Is he hot?
"He's a she," Mom said.
"Is she hot? Cause I'm still young, you know. My sexual identity isn't fully formed.
Kelley Armstrong
#30. John and Jenny's planes arrived in Rome only hours apart. They had never imagined, when they walked away from each other graduation night 1960, it would be forty years and five thousand miles away before they would meet again.
Thomas Allen
#31. Glancing sideways, he said that he loved her. Then, turning rapidly, he walked away and entered a tobacco shop.
Vladimir Nabokov
#32. I just felt all along that if I could get a certain amount of years in the league, have great years and still have my health when I walked away, that would be great.
Kevin Johnson
#33. For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.
Alice Munro
#34. Most girls swoon when I talk to them. So quit ignoring me."
"So go talk to them," Kara slammed her locked shut and walked away.
Alexis Tiger
#35. The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
Benjamin Disraeli
#36. Braden arched his brow as Maggie walked away. She was truly something else. What she was, he couldn't say in polite company, but never before had he met a woman quite like her.
Kinley MacGregor
#37. We walked away from all that was warm and dear and stood frightened in cold rain where the guns fired, and in the end, we died in pain, the black stinking mud our shroud, embraced at last not by living arms, but by the bones of those who before us died ...
Charles Todd
#38. Do you know what they called a sausage-in-a-bun in Quirm?' said Mr Pin, as the two walked away. 'No?' said Mr Tulip. 'They called it le sausage-in-le-bun.
Terry Pratchett
#39. Those who controlled private capital largely walked away from the US economy for the entire 1930s, refusing to pump in enough new investment even to replace the machinery and goods-in-process that were consumed during the decade.
Robert P. Murphy
#40. While others have walked away from their responsibilities, the Sinn Fein team will work with the other ministers in partnership to deliver for all the people.
Martin McGuinness
#41. She turned and walked away, pausing only a moment at the door to glance over her shoulder. William wanted to think she was looking at him, but he figured she was probably more interested in his friend. William decided to let it drop. There was no telling what Miss Dandridge might be thinking.
Tracie Peterson
#42. This week the Obama administration warned China to remove its secret agents from the U.S. Then in the middle of Obama's announcement a plant behind him got up and walked away.
Jimmy Fallon
#43. No, you were certainly not trying to seduce me, more like trying to wound my ego, break my heart, I dunno. Did you like how you felt when you walked away? Do you prefer that emotion to this?
J.B. McGee
#44. I hope one of those books is a primer on etiquette. You seriously need a refresher."
"You're not queen yet, Eadlyn. Take it down a notch." He walked away, and I was furious with
myself for not getting the last word.
Kiera Cass
#45. I said after 2006 that Republicans didn't just lose our majority, we lost our way. I mean, our party walked away from the principles that men in our national governing majority first in 1980 and again in 1994, and the American people walked away from us.
Mike Pence
#46. To me, love was something a person gave up a piece of themselves for and never walked away from.
Kelly Moran
#47. Everyone to whom she drew close left her. Sooner or later they walked away.
Francine Rivers
#48. Excuse him, he doesn't Target much," I said with a smile. The woman laughed and walked away.
Claire Contreras
#49. A smart woman would have walked away then. She would have lit a match and set fire to the entire clusterfuck that was this situation. But I was never a smart woman, and if you didn't believe me, all you had to do was ask my mother.
A. Zavarelli
#50. I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.
Marilyn Manson
#51. One other thing, Lestrade," he added, turning round at the door: "'Rache,' is the German for 'revenge;' so don't lose your time looking for Miss Rachel." With which Parthian shot he walked away, leaving the two rivals open-mouthed behind him.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#52. Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured I'd have a better perspective when I came back to it.
Margaret Haddix
#53. She rose. "I'll just go get the wine."
"I'm not interested in wine."
She walked away, tossed a glance over her shoulder. "You will be. When I start licking it off you.
J.D. Robb
#54. Darcy had walked away to another part of the room. She followed him with her eyes, envied everyone to whom he spoke, had scarcely patience enough to help anybody to coffee; and then was enraged against herself for being so silly!
Jane Austen
#55. I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King.
And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.
Mary Renault
#56. The world crashed on me. I smiled like an idiot as I stood up and rushed away hoping he'd forget we had ever spoken. I walked away from the Company and Sonia, but mostly from Giovanni. I had finally met an awesome guy who did not look like a thug and he was four years older than me?
Gaia B. Amman
#57. She walked away too far for me to call ... and for her to hear my voice.
Faraaz Kazi
#58. What I did was experiment with a little marijuana like a lot of other people and walked away ...
Tom Brokaw
#59. Sugar Ray wouldn't give me a rematch, and that's the reason I walked away from boxing.
Marvin Hagler
#60. As they walked away, hand in hand, they vowed to be together forever, not knowing that forever always ended.
Cristiane Serruya
#61. He yearned for something more.
It could have been his. It had been his.
Until he walked away.
Donna Grant
#62. I walked away from this movie thinking how important it is to have a genuine selfless love for your children. You can really mess kids up if you don't have the right kind of love for them.
Jonathan Jackson
#63. Saturday, three o'clock, I confirmed as he turned and walked away. I don't think it would be exaggerating much to say that my feet didn't touch the ground the whole way home.
Amy Plum
#64. Don't Forget!" She shouted as she walked away.
"Love persevered. It's the men who change.
Paulo Coelho
#65. Wow, that is so deep.'
He meant it, of course.
'You're really real,' he added breathily. 'Say something else.'
I decided he wasn't worth punching, and walked away.
Claire North
#66. I want your best offer. [ ... ]
- You already have it.
She bit her lip, nodded.
- That's what I thought.
And then she walked away.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#67. As I walked away, I heard Kale tell Fin to stop staring at my ass or he was going to punish him. I couldn't help but smile.
Jus Accardo
#68. With a heavy heart, I turned and walked away. I knew that as long as I lived I'd never forget the two little graves and the sacred red fern.
Wilson Rawls
#69. The Tudors") "I walked away thinking, well, if I don't get the job, it doesn't matter - I've kissed Jonathan Rhys Meyers!
Natalie Dormer
#70. Don't do anything stupid." I just smirked as I walked away. All that we had left were stupid choices.
Anonymous
#71. Stunned by how little he'd gotten over her and she'd gotten over him, he walked away understanding, as outside his reading in classical Greek drama he'd never had to understood before, how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made ...
Philip Roth
#73. Finally, after several more breathless moments, he straightened, disentangling his limbs from mine. "That's how you should be kissed. Every single time." And then he patted my head like a small child and walked away.
Rachel Higginson
#74. I asked a Jewish man, "Do you know where Michigan Avenue is?" He said, "Yes", and walked away.
Henny Youngman
#75. I couldn't see his face, just his back as he walked away
Stephenie Meyer
#76. I might never breathe again once he walked away from me.
Abbi Glines
#77. Even in the early Eighties, when I was one of the most successful models in Britain, I didn't really have a voice. Time after time, when I should have spoken up, I simply walked away.
Marie Helvin
#78. I'd walked away from 'Come Dancing' and gave 'Blankety Blank' the elbow when I felt the public had had enough. But I didn't follow my instinct to escape from 'Wogan,' and was persuaded to continue for another two years. I kind of regret that.
Terry Wogan
#79. Everyone is here to say good-bye. It's what people do when they go their separate ways. They say good-bye. I've done it a lot. It goes like this.
Selma turned and walked away.
Sarah Addison Allen
#80. And so he did the hardest thing he'd ever done in his life: he picked up his hat and walked away.
Nicole Krauss
#81. I did. I understood all too well, as much as I hated it. This was why we ignored each other. When she walked away the first time, my damn heart ruptured and I swore I'd never let it happen again. Like an idiot, here I was setting off explosives.
Katie McGarry
#82. I'm angry at Chris. I'm hurt. Well, you know what I fear? This is my fear. This moment when, once again, you shut me out
and I'm alone. If you were going to leave me alone, you should have walked away before now, when I still knew how to breathe without you.
Lisa Renee Jones
#83. At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.
Reese Hoffa
#84. There is a saying: It takes a Downworlder to clear up a Shadowhunter mess," Catarina observed. "I ... hadn't heard that saying," said Dean Penhallow. "How odd," said Catarina, her voice fading as they walked away. "Downworlders say it often. Very often." Simon
Cassandra Clare
#85. I swore to myself that if I ever got to walk around the room as manager, people would laugh when they saw me coming, and would applaud as I walked away.
Michael Scott
#86. She stuck a bookmark in his heart and walked away.
Saul Williams
#87. Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love talked trash about the fact that I hooped. I once stopped to say 'Hi' before a show, and as I walked away, Courtney yelled, 'Go play basketball with Dave Grohl!'
Jeff Ament
#88. Very few worries can stand against the influence of a good long walk ... How many petty annoyances have I thus walked away!
Charlotte Alington Barnard
#89. And she walked away, and she walked away, and that was that, and that was that.
Helen Oyeyemi
#90. I didn't cry when she got on the plane. She lived with me for four years, and when she walked away, I didn't feel much of anything at all
Jodi Picoult
#91. I don't want to get involved in this," Jason said, cutting him off. He moved to step past the man only to pause. "Just....just make sure she takes her medication and you should be safe, I mean fine." Jason quickly walked away before he burst into laughter at his friend's horrified expression.
R.L. Mathewson
#92. you tomorrow, Bruce." The man gave a quick nod and walked away. Maddie watched him make his way through the revolving door. "I'm so glad the new owners of the building kept that revolving door in place. It adds to the charm of the lobby, don't you think?" He gave her an odd look,
Mona Ingram
#93. He stood there, looking at her. She glared back, opened her mouth to continue the conversation, but he suddenly turned, walked away, like he'd just remembered that she may look and sound and talk like Valkyrie Cain, but she wasn't Valkyrie Cain.
And she never would be.
Derek Landy
#94. I metaphor for sex, but she slapped my face and walked away when I asked.
Stephen King
#95. Someone stumbled into him, cursed and walked away. Richard was lying prone on the platform, in the rush-hour glare. The side of his face was sticky and cold. He pulled his head up off the ground. He had been lying in a pool of his own vomit. At least, he hoped it was his own.
Neil Gaiman
#96. The first kiss I had was the most disgusting thing in my life. The girl injected about a pound of saliva into my mouth, and when I walked away I had to spit it all out.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#97. He reached out and grasped her arm. Please don't walk away from me again. I know I hurt you the night you told me you loved me and I walked away, but Gabrielle, you've walked away from me twice now.
Rachel Gibson
#98. 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.
Sarah Dessen
#99. If they left you, you didn't need them. If they walked away, they weren't part of your DESTINY.
Joel Osteen
#100. To be a true poet is to become God.
I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven's Gate. 'Piss, shit,' I said. 'Asshole motherfucker, goddamn shit goddamn. Cunt. Pee-pee cunt. Goddamn!'
They shook their heads and smiled, and walked away. Great poets are rarely understood in their own day.
Dan Simmons
