Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?
Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.
They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.