“Perhaps I need to learn to love you the way the earth loves the moon: fondly, but from a distance.”— F. e. Marie, google.com
“I don’t mean anything I say. Except that I still want you. That whatever is in me still loves you deeply. It is a light I can’t turn off. I clap my hands and nothing happens.”— Karese Burrows, therisingphoenixreview.com
“Crawlin' back to you Ever thought of calling when you've had a few? 'Cause I always do”— Arctic Monkeys, open.spotify.com
“I love you. I am going to wait for you. Come back. Come back to me.”— Ian McEwan, Christopher Hampton, imdb.com
“The truth is, distance and unavailability—flecked with short-lived, gorgeous IRL binges—were what made the drug-person so intoxicating. I wanted more of the drug-person than could ever be available. When I didn’t get a text, I was, as junkies say, sick. When I received a text it made me well. But it…”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“I am please don’t go. / I am toss the windows open, but I am windows closed. / Nothing comes in, no one gets out.”— Lisa Marie Basile, occulum.net
“I have given my heart away and I can’t take it back — it is like living without a heart.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com