“If you have reasons for not coming back, I don’t want to know them. I just want you to come back anyway. Ignorance, see?”
Variant: If you have reasons for not coming back, I don't want to know them. I just want you to come back anyway
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quote in a letter from Paris, 1906, to Otto in Worpswede; as quoted in Tromp M, Ravelli AC, Reitsma JB, Bonsel GJ, Mol BW: Increasing maternal age at first pregnancy planning: health outcomes and associated costs. In 'J. Epidemiol Community Health', Dec. 2010, p. 4
1906 + 1907

“I just didn’t want to see myself fall back. I don’t want to disappoint my coaches or my parents.”
"You Can’t Stop Suni Lee" in Elle (29 July 2021) https://www.elle.com/culture/a36503849/suni-lee-olympics-gymnastics-tokyo/
“If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.”
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 5, The Audience, p. 26.

Come Monday
Song lyrics, Living & Dying in 3/4 Time (1974)