En el momento de la despedida, ella se quitó el anillo del dedo y lo arrojó al río.

"Cuando algo bueno le sucede a alguien -le explicó a Petkutin- tiene que condimentarse siempre con un detalle desagradable, para que el momento se recuerde mejor. Uno siempre recuerda por más tiempo las cosas desagradables que las cosas agradables de la vida." 

Milorad Pavic, Diccionario Jázaro

In the end a career was merely a job, not a whole life.
Hanif Kueishi, The Black Album

VAL: Well, in answer to your last question, I would say this: Nobody ever gets to know no body! We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinment inside our own skins, for life! You understand me, lady? I'm tellin' you it's the truth, we got to face it, we're under a life-long sentence to solitary confinment inside our own lonely skins for as long as we live on this earth.

Lady: Oh, no, I'm not a big optimist but I cannot agree with something as sad as that statement!

Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending