“[cries] I just want my friend back!”

“I just didn’t want to see myself fall back. I don’t want to disappoint my coaches or my parents.”

“I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.”

“I don't want to be your friend,
I just want to be your lover.”

“I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.”

“Fair and foul are near of kin,
And fair needs foul,’ I cried.
‘My friends are gone, but that’s a truth
Nor grave nor bed denied.”

“In eight years not a day has gone by when she hasn’t thought of him. She misses him and she wants him back. I want my best friend back, she thinks, because without him nothing is good and nothing is right.”

“She cried in a voice that hit me between the eyebrows and went out at the back of my head.”

“Come back! come back!" he cried in grief
"Across this stormy water;
And I'll forgive your Highland chief,
My daughter! O my daughter!”

“I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t believe I’m here without her.”- on losing her best friend”