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— Ada Limón, from In a Mexican Restaurant, I Recall How Much You Upset Me

“Yes, I am glad you miss me, even if it is ‘damned unpleasant’. I thought from your first letter that you didn't miss me at all, and was sad about it. Now I am all pleased again. Selfish, isn’t one? But I go through it too, you know,—this missing you, and wanting you,—so that I know exactly how damned unpleasant it is, and probably even better than you do.”

— Vita Sackville-West, in a letter to Virginia Woolf, c. February 1927

“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. / I can feel that other day running underneath this one / like an old videotape.”

— Anne Carson, The Glass Essay

“Grief is love’s souvenir. It’s our proof that we once loved. Grief is the receipt we wave in the air that says to the world: Look! Love was once mine. I love well. Here is my proof that I paid the price.”

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