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“... and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her absence stings worst of all.”

— Veronica Roth

“But he was here. In my bed. His body warm and hard and feeling so much like home that I ached.”

— Julie Bale

“In fact, knowing she'd been through hardship filled me with sweet tenderness.”

— Taichi Yamada

“I wouldn’t last the night without the walls between us. Her touch, those lips, I craved them. How could I let her go, to…

— Rae Z. Ryans

“And so the beauty was in being alone; but it was also the pain.”

— C. JoyBell C

“Standing there. watching her go, I felt lonelier than I have ever been in my life.”

— Ian Cross

“She imagined she'd like to explain that it's difficult to know who you are once you are alone, when you have always been there…

— Fredrik Backman

“Did it hurt her to leave, as it hurt me to let her go?”

— Stephenie Meyer

“And the feeling I had was not of wanting her so much as being surrounded by her, blundering inside her life without having moved.”

— Jennifer Egan

“The more she loved, the more she ached.”

— Elizabeth Fama

“I wanted to hurt her, on this day of all days, just because it's the first time since she left that I've been able…

— Nick Hornby

“I hated being there without her and wondered what I had done before we met.”

— Jamie McGuire