“Why is love intensified by absence?”

“Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?”

“It's hard being left behind...It's hard to be the one who stays...Why is love intensified by absence?”

“Why is love intensified by absence? Long ago, men went to sea and women wait for them, standing on the edge of the water, standing in the horizon for the tiny ship.”

“I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?”

“absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird”

“But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.”