"Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before."
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was an American author and aviator known for works including Gift from the Sea. She was also an accomplished pilot who flew and navigated with Charles Lindbergh on pioneering long-distance flights.