“There is no good way to talk about pain, how it means you are only ever kissing the image of someone’s face in a pond, hearing their voice through the feeble connection of the last working pay phone in the town where you were born.”— Molly McCully Brown, pleiadesmag.com
“it is very easy to tell me you love me when it is over and you are thousands of miles away... could you love me at your front door? i don't think you could.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“Time and distance have a way of playing tricks with your best intentions.”— Anthony Kiedis, amazon.com
“How terrible it was to still be mentally and emotionally attached to someone from whom you have been physically separated.”— Elif Shafak, amazon.com
“Yet in those few times I touched him / knowing one thing unfolded us both, it was my history beneath me, / my hands at least touching its skin.”— Katie Ford, amazon.com