Quotes About Absence

whom we saw every day, and whose very existence appeared a part of our own, can have departed forever—that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished, and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard.

When I look up to the sky between the narrow roofs, it reminds me of you, the one who is far, far away.

Let's get the hell out of here.

10/30/38 Where do you look for someone who's never really there? Always on a staircase but never on a stair

i miss you so much it's giving me a pain in my pancreas.

There are reasons for everything, even if we don't know them, Stevie said. Motive. Okay, Nate said. My motive is that I prefer dragons. To what? To the absence of dragons.

Where do you look for someone who's never really there? Always on a staircase but never on a stair.

Must have been the cat." "You don't have a cat," Sooz said. "I have you," Sebastian replied. "That's close enough.

God, I've missed you! he said, and knew that he had, every day since he'd seen her last and most of all, perhaps on the days when he had not thought of her

wearily distasteful resignation: it seemed easier to attend the wedding than to bother explaining her absence afterwards.

This is Tehran for me: its absences were more real than its presences.

think people whose fathers aren't there—and whose mothers are feeling really bitter about their fathers' not being there—what they absorb is how terrible that guy was and you don't want to be like that guy. In

Our house is like an empty cigarette packet, lying around reminding you what's not in it.

The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things it can kill.

Shoes, then, sliding me across the floor to greet the day. Dreaming of coffee. I'm afraid I didn't miss the physical presence of my husband in his absences as much as I missed coffee.

It is in his absence I prosper.

Sometimes I tell her: Mommy Mommy. I just say that. Father isn't listening so I can say it. Her real name is Mother and Misrus Price but her secret name to me is Mommy Mommy. He went away on the airplane and I said, "Mama, I hope he never comes back." We cried then.

The substance of grief is not imaginary. It's as real as rope or the absence of air, and like both those things it can kill.

on the weekends. He'd mentioned a place called Sweet Briar where he met other scientists. She felt the trailer's absence

There wasn't any

His voice was a deep and quiet rumble. It made me think of a freshly tuned tractor engine.. He didn't sound illiterate, but he didn't sound educated. In his speech as in so many other things, he was a mystery. Mostly it was his eyes that troubled me - a kind of peaceful absence in them, as if he were floating far, far away.

But even things not there have weight. Negative weight which is the worst kind.

When he remembered to turn and look for it, the Talisman was gone.

Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember.