- "Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is to watch the year repeat its days. It is as if I could dip my hand down into time and scoop up blue and green lozenges of April heat a year ago in another country." - Anne Carson, The Glass Essay
- "Where does such tenderness come from, And what do I do with it, you, sly, Adolescent, vagabond singer, Whose lashes couldn't be longer?" - Marina Tsvetaeva
- "But it is over now; I have survived it." - Rainer Maria Rilke, Journal of My Other Self
- "Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream." - Euripides, Herakles
- "Which nights do you want, which nights and what color are those eyes that you dream with when you dream?" - Mahmoud Darwish
- "Nothing even surprises or shocks me anymore. I am becoming very hard on the outside and even softer on the inside. I have to get through this. All of this and my own life, too." - Keith Haring Journals, February 15, 1989
- "I am my mother's child, I'll love you till my breathing stops" - Lorde, Writer in the Dark
- "My mother said I could be anything I wanted-but I chose to live." - Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
- "I sink into your eyes whenever I'm looking at you," - Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
- "Then suddenly you're left all alone with your body that can't love you and your will that can't save you." - Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours
- "I remember the first time I started to feel the sun on my skin again, I remember looking up to the sky and feeling warmth. I learnt to appreciate my body and the way it carried me through all of this. I remember not wanting to die anymore and I remember that so vividly. I don't want to die anymore so I live more, I keep on living, everyday I keep on living. Warmth on my skin, cold breeze on my face, toes in the cold winter water. I can feel again. I can feel again. I thought I would be numb for the rest of my life but I can finally feel again." - Hannah Green, The Sun and All Her Children
- "I would like to see the truth clearly before it is too late." - Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
- "There you were, and it was like spring-" - Mary Oliver
- "Surely spring has been returned to me, this time not as a lover but a messenger of death, yet it is still spring, it is still meant tenderly." - Louise Gluck, Vita Nova
- "Of course I'll hurt you. Of course you'll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- "Woke up with a full realization that I had never been human in all my life. By that I mean I never reacted naturally according to my emotions." - Anais Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin
- "How I have felt what parting means! How well I know it still: dark, cruel," - Rainer Marie Rilke, Parting
- "I'm saying I know all about you, whoever you are, it's spring and it's starting again, the longing that begins, and begins, and begins." - Kim Addonizio, Onset
- "do your words hurt you as much as they hurt me?" - aestus, flatsoundsecretsite
- "We dream of each other and keep it a secret" - bittersuggestion
- "my vision blurred when I saw you, nostalgia, could not see, an ordinary life, warm memories, warmth with wariness: are a bit heavier than others," - preschooldr0pout
- "Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them" - Richard Siken
- "Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings." - Gustave Flaubert c. October 1846
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