I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
Charles Bukowski, Love is a dog from hell
So all of it will heal one day or I will just get used to it?
She smiles a lot.
Even when she's sad?
Especially when she's sad.
-Anne Carson, from The Glass Essay
— Anne Sexton, Imitations of Drowning
- Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra
“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t. I just watched. Paralyzed.”
-Khaled Hosseini, The kite runner
"I used to love September, but now it just rhymes with remember."
-Dominic Riccitello
-Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell