But you play that passage like it's the -memory- of love. You're so young, yet you know desertion, abandonment. That's why you play that third movement the way you do. Most cellists, they play it with joy. But for you, it's not about joy, it's about the memory of a joyful time that's gone forever.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

Leave me alone, Do me a favor, abandon me, I want to think about, You me and the idea of forever.

— Rohit Hora

Why is it so easy to abandon ourselves, and why do we so easily fall into the illusion that this self-abandonment is the only way people will like us?

— Ariana Carruth