When I had to work Shea Stadium for a Mets-Braves game — Atlanta pitcher John Rocker had recently given an interview in which he denounced New Yorkers of all Colors and preferences — I was assigned to a parking lot, where numerous drivers asked me for directions to various highways. When my first answer — “I have no idea” — seemed to invite denunciation and debate, I revised it to “Take the first left.” For all I know, those people are still lost in Queens. Edward Conlon
In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.
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C. Joybell C.
Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.
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Sarah Ockler
But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.
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Cassandra Clare
I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn’t.
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Alexandra Adornetto
You get use to someone–start to like them, even–and they leave. In the end, everyone leaves.
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Rachel Ward
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