“When they had first fallen in love, she had kissed him with an intensity which imagined him already halfway out of the door. A grasping period - nights spent holding him overlong and too tightly, the ravenous dig of fingers into skin.” LoveFearRelationshipAbandonment Book:Salt Slow Source: Salt Slow
“We didn't speak for three days, during which time I became so panicked at the thought of losing her that I sent her a total of thirty-nine hysterically casual messages - a photograph of my breakfast, a quote from a movie, a long text about which of my trains had been delayed that day.” LoveRelationshipLeavingAbandonment Book:Salt Slow Source: Salt Slow
“That night, she had slept in strange hot fits on his futon and woken in the red-eye of the morning to find herself alone, realising after several bleary moments that he had left the room and closed the door behind him. [...] A very slender sort of betrayal, the deliberate absence from a room.” RelationshipPregnancyAbandonment Book:Salt Slow Source: Salt Slow