“How could a feeling that leaves you so hollow be a pain that is so sharp?”

“Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?”

“I want to hug you so tight so that when I leaves You it pains to You then only You would realize how much it hurts to me in Your absence!”

“And then another letter had come from Christopher, so devastating that Amelia wondered how mere scratches of ink on paper could rip someone's soul to shreds. She had wondered how she could feel so much pain and still survive.”

“How could he give her so much, yet leave her so little.”

“A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on andlet go?”