“It felt like a small forever.”

“And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.”

“We felt so small with the city lights stretching forever below us, and we yelled at the top of our lungs because we were just these small humans but we felt more longing than could ever fit inside us.”

“We were linked, for the endless now that felt every bit like forever.”

“Have you ever met someone and felt like you’ve known them forever?”

“But while our parting was mutually acceptable and even expedient, still it was painful. And I would like to think it hurt both of us, for I certainly felt it: a wrenching inside, like some small but improbably necessary organ was no longer in there, that it was missing, torn or fallen out. And at the time I'd thought that was the end of it; what was missing was gone forever”