Rachel

“I haven't gotten in a fight yet this year!

Despite everything, that made her smile. "It's September."

He waved a hand. "Details.”
― Brigid Kemmerer, Storm

“We had each other of course, but not in the perfectly synced way our television counterparts did. We didn't live in the same apartment building and pop in unannounced to make grilled-cheese sandwiches or coach each other for job interviews. We weren't always available for emergency brunches or last-minute trips to Jamaica. Instead, we had complicated, independent lives wending down many different paths, lives that sometimes had us working sixteen-hour days, or moving out of state, or navigation fledging romance. We saw each other the way most urban professionals do - by booking dates days or weeks in advance. That meant we were frequently alone, with time.”
― Sara Eckel, It's Not You: 27 (Wrong) Reasons You're Single

“Twas ostensibly ominous in the overview
To be 'orribly and onerously overrun.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby