Robin

“If I never see you again
I will always carry you
inside
outside

on my fingertips
and at brain edges

and in centers
centers
of what I am of
what remains.”
― Charles Bukowski, Living on Luck

“Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.”
― Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“No woman before her had written publicly, with greater candor or less euphemism, about the most intimate secrets of her sex. One of those secrets- the hardest, perhaps, for Beauvoir to avow- is that a free woman may refuse to be owned without wanting to renounce, or being able to transcend, her yearning to be possessed”
― Judith Thurman- introduction to The Second Sex