— Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter to Arthur Davison Ficke
They were wrong, love is never enough to keep someone with you.
The most toughest part in any relation is give up,giving up on that person you once gave the world to. You stop giving explanation, you stop expecting things and even though you want to you just stop yourself from going near that person because you know doesn't matter how much you love them or how many times you forgive them, when you will leave because of the pain they cause you they will not even stop you. Their's some silence in the conversation and some words behind the silence which you both don't listen to anymore or don't tend to listen. Sometimes your heart wants to give them the explanation, wants to tell them each and every thing running through your mind but... But you don't cause you know it will not change a single thing so you backspace the whole paragraph and let them be in peace and that's my friend is the most broken part.
-Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
-Vladimir Nabokov, from letter to Vera Nabokov dated July 1923, featured in Letters to Vera
Charles Bukowski, "hurry slowly," from Come On In!