The State of Missing

“. . . solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public . . .”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Bay of Noon

“But that's a way to go on loving--a place, or a person. To miss it. In fact, to go away, to put yourself in the state of missing, is sometimes the simplest way to preserve love.”
― Shirley Hazzard, The Bay of Noon