I was going to post this because the ‘I miss her’ theme is more present in my mind than it has ever been.
but I find I posted it here not long ago, with totally different context.
read this.
but the quote is now all the more crushingly apt, without the detached sense of distance the speaker has in the novel.
This is a quote that has made me tear up
in the past. Today it will make me cry, if I let it.
The sailors say the rain misses the cloud even as it falls through light or dark into the sea. I miss her like that as I fall through my life, through time, the chaos of our time. I dream she is alive even now, but there is nothing to give weight or value to that, it is only me, and what I want to be true. It is only longing. We can want things so much sometimes. It is the way we are.