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“I love you," he writes again and again. "I can't bear to live without you. I'm counting the minutes until I see you." The words he uses are the idioms of popular songs and poems in the newspaper. And mine to him are no less cliched. I puzzle over the onionskin, trying to spill my heart onto the page. But I can only come up with the same words, in the same order, and hope the depth of feeling beneath them gives them weight and substance. I love you. I miss you. Be careful. Be safe.”
― Christina Baker Kline, Orphan Train

“But even now I believe—and I believe it very strongly—that true love is not so far removed from religious faith.”
― Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

“The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe