More from The Island of the Day Before
- For every feared thing there is an opposing hope that encourages us.
- I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
- And in the middle of all this, I started to think about the one thing that makes me feel really good and makes immediate sense...and it's you.
- Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.
- Absence makes the heart grow fonder: Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
- Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.
Last reviewed 2026-07-06