“To remember is to open one door after another all along the white corridor to say Yes when asked, Are you anything? Did she love you?”— Robin Ekiss, poetryfoundation.org
“In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point at chicken noodl…”— Jeffrey MCDaniel, goodreads.com
“I lie here in a harbor that does not know where your body ends and my body begins. Fish swim between our ribs and sea gulls cry like mirrors to our blood.”— Richard Brautigan, books.google.ro
“There are 6 states pressed like stubborn flowers between the last time I kissed you and today but you still feel like a sound caught in my throat.”— Sierra De Mulder, sierrademulder.com
“There is a love I reminisce. like a seed I’ve never sown of lips that I am yet to kiss, and eyes not met my own. hands that wrap around my wrists. and arms that feel like home. I wonder how it is I miss, these things I’ve never known.”— Lang Leav, amazon.com
“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”— Mary Anne Radmacher, goodreads.com
“Missing someone gets easier every day because even though it’s one day further from the last time you saw each other, it’s one day closer to the next time you will.’”— Peyton Sawyer, imdb.com
“All you will have is the present. Waste no energy crying over yesterday or dreaming of tomorrow. Nostalgia is fatiguing and destructive, it is the vice of the expatriate. You must put down roots as if they were forever, you must have a sense of permanence.”— Isabel Allende, imdb.com
“It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same”— Sarah Turnbull, goodreads.com