”I have to get back. I promised her. To put things right. And she loves me. She’s waiting for me.”
The Unicorn Road (2008)
Martin Davies
But then, as message followed message, she began to see, beneath the greetings and the blessings, beneath the honest words of love, that a common sense of sadness linked each one. It was as if the same sigh of pain breathed through them all, and touched Ming Yueh with an unexpected melancholy.
The More Loving One (1957)
W.H. Auden
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, i can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast