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    Edna St. Vincent Millay
    “Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
    Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • #2
    Fernando Pessoa
    “The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
    Fernando Pessoa

  • #3
    Lionel Shriver
    “A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.”
    Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs

  • #4
    Louise Erdrich
    “Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.”
    Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum

  • #5
    Allen Ginsberg
    “The weight of the world
    is love.
    Under the burden
    of solitude,
    under the burden
    of dissatisfaction

    the weight,
    the weight we carry
    is love.

    Who can deny?
    In dreams
    it touches
    the body,
    in thought
    constructs
    a miracle,
    in imagination
    anguishes
    till born
    in human—
    looks out of the heart
    burning with purity—
    for the burden of life
    is love,

    but we carry the weight
    wearily,
    and so must rest
    in the arms of love
    at last,
    must rest in the arms
    of love.

    No rest
    without love,
    no sleep
    without dreams
    of love—
    be mad or chill
    obsessed with angels
    or machines,
    the final wish
    is love
    —cannot be bitter,
    cannot deny,
    cannot withhold
    if denied:

    the weight is too heavy

    —must give
    for no return
    as thought
    is given
    in solitude
    in all the excellence
    of its excess.

    The warm bodies
    shine together
    in the darkness,
    the hand moves
    to the center
    of the flesh,
    the skin trembles
    in happiness
    and the soul comes
    joyful to the eye—

    yes, yes,
    that's what
    I wanted,
    I always wanted,
    I always wanted,
    to return
    to the body
    where I was born.”
    Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

  • #6
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.
    Edgar Alan Poe, Berenice

  • #7
    Céline Sciamma
    “Do all lovers feel like they're inventing something?”
    Céline Sciamma, Portrait of a Lady on Fire

  • #8
    Clarice Lispector
    “What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.”
    Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

  • #9
    Denise Hunter
    “He had no idea what missing was. Missing was lying in the dampness of your tears night after night. Missing was a constant hollow spot in the center of your chest. Missing was a yawning ache that was never satisfied.”
    Denise Hunter, The Accidental Bride

  • #10
    Haruki Murakami
    “Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I'm gazing at a distant star.
    It's dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
    Maybe the star doesn't even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
    Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

  • #11
    David Foster Wallace
    “It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”
    David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

  • #12
    Robert Goolrick
    “If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”
    Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

  • #13
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.”
    Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

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    Roger de Rabutin
    “Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”
    Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

  • #16
    Stephanie Laurens
    “Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.”
    Stephanie Laurens, A Rogue's Proposal

  • #17
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves



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