For wasn't it just a matter of time before we crossed each other's path? Despite all the hoopla, wasn't Manhattan just ten miles long and a mile or two wide? So in the days that followed, I kept en eye out, I looked for his figure on the street corners and in the coffee shops. I imagined coming home and having him emerge once more from the doorway across the street. But as the weeks turned into months, and the months into years, this sense of anticipation waned, and slowly but surely, I stopped expecting to see him in a crowd.
I will be waiting for you at the end of every blind alley, under the lonely streetlamps of a city that will no longer be ours. When the wind grows colder and the huge piles of settled leaves sit there for a week or two, unshielded from the curious gaze of passersby, I will be waiting for you. I will be waiting for what could have been and for what will never be; For the letters that never arrived, the letters that were never sent, and the letters that will never be written.
We All Have Some People In Our Lives Who change us totally either by Coming Or by Leaving. And sometimes the same people do both.
...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.
The absence of a message sometimes is a presence of one.
The biggest waste of an opportunity is the opportunity to tell someone how much you love them.
What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.
The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.
When people ask what 'American Pie' is about, they're missing the point. The song isn't about the lines themselves - it's about what is between the lines. The song is about what isn't there.
I have an amino acid missing that you can only get from certain kinds of eggs. So, I've been eating a few eggs.
The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground.
When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.
But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.
Things have changed for the worse. That's why former eastern bloc countries are electing communists again. We are missing them and longing for the times we cursed before.
Just as computer science is missing from our school system, so is science fiction.
When you were riding on the crest of a wave, youwere most likely to be missing out on something.
Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.
Missing paperwork is one of the top reasons for delays during the mortgage process. I suggest following the two-by-two system: two most recent pay stubs, tax returns, W-2s from your employer, and bank statements from all of your savings and checking accounts. Be sure to remain clear and transparent, provide evidence of all forms of income.
