“You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.”
Jacqueline Woodson (1963) American writer
Source: The Dear One
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Mississippi
“You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.”
Jacqueline Woodson (1963) American writer
Source: The Dear One
Jan Smuts (1870–1950) military leader, politician and statesman from South Africa
When seeing off young South Africans in World War II, as cited in Antony Lentin, 2010, Jan Smuts – Man of courage and vision, p. 138. ISBN 978-1-86842-390-3
George Michael (1963–2016) English singer-songwriter, musician, producer
Praying for Time
Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 (1990)
“You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back”
Paul Theroux (1941) American travel writer and novelist
Variant: You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.
Source: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
“Cut corners and it'll always come back to bite you in the ass.”
David Sedaris book Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
That was one of her sayings.
Essay, "The girl next door" - p.106
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004)