Source: The Pilot's Wife
“I leave before being left. I decide.”
“Leave a message, don't leave a message. live, die, it's all the same dream.”
This Other Eden (1993)
Variant: you might not understand but i gave you the best of me...
Source: The Best of Me
On the Lawn at the Villa (l. 14-16) (1980) It is not your job to like me, it is mine.
Poetry quotes
“The past was gone, after all, and the future was the only thing they had left.”
Amanda Collier Ridley, Chapter 12, p. 180
2009, The Best of Me (2011)
“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“The artist after all is a solitary being.”
"The Historian and 'The Gibbon'"
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942)
