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I miss you.…” He stroked the indentation of the gown where her waist would have been—should have been. “I miss you so much.

J.R. Ward (2012). “Lover Reborn: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.71, Penguin

A young trooper should have an old horse.

Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1860). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.304

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham, Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon (1822). “The Poems of Edmund Waller ...”, p.150

I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.

Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing