“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”

—  Jonathan Safran Foer, book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Variant: It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 208

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