Please say we'll keep in words.

We'd said we'd keep in touch. But touch is not something you can do from distance. Touch is not something you can keep; as soon as it's gone, it's gone. We should have said we'd keep in words, because they are all we can string between us-words on a telephone line, words appearing on a screen. But they cause more complications than clarity. On the phone, there are always voices in the background. On the screen, there are always sentence saying he has to go.

David Levithan. How they meet and other stories.