Quotes About Presence

If thou but settest foot on this path, thou shalt see it everywhere.

Little treasures have a sign that says, Here I am. Bigger treasures have a sign that says, Do you remember. But the most precious treasures of all will have a sign saying, I was there.

Tudo o que está para vir, já aí está.

Her elegance was in the abstract; in her gait, in her posture, even in how she breathed.

If that guy don't look like the loneliest thing ever. And it ain't because he's turned his back on the world. With him, everybody's happy to see him coming, but no one's sorry to see him go. And anybody who catches sight of him is bound to step aside on account of the intense scent he's got about him.

Children's] lives start long before birth, long before conception, and if they are aborted or miscarried or simply fail to materialise at all, they become ghosts in our lives...The unborn, whether they're named or not, whether or not they're acknowledged, have a way of insisting: a way of making their presence felt.

The dead are more faithful than the living. For better or worse, they do not leave you. They last out the longest night.

When Stephen comes into a room, the furnishings shrink from him. Chairs scuttle backwards. Joint-stools flatten themselves like pissing bitches. The woollen Bible figures in the king's tapestries lift their hands to cover their ears.

Death stays when the visitors have gone, and the nurses turn a blind eye; he leans back on his portable throne, he crosses his legs, he says, 'Entertain me.

His stepson was fourteen years old when he removed his noisy and overgrown presence to

God says: If you come to My House, I will come to yours.

Amy Weitz had said that the dead seem to hang around for a while, as if to guide and comfort us, and then slowly disappear into an unapproachable distance. How did we let them go?

You have the potential for becoming air; as still, as necessary, just there.

Sometimes we develop grand concepts of what happiness might look like for us, but if we pay attention, we can see that there are little symbols of happiness in every breath that we take.

This surely is the way to be, I thought to myself, that one should take hold of those one loves most and simply look into their eyes for a long time, or perhaps, for eternity.

I would settle for even his worst self, his cruelest trickster self, if only he could be here." -Jude Duarte

She sits up. I can't read her expression, but her cheeks look a little pink. "I didn't think you were going to be here." "I live here.

lt's an honor and a delight to meet you and a tragedy you're here

The prince opens his tawny fox eyes and looks around. When he sees me, he slumps back down, as though relieved that I am still here.

Randalin rushes toward the door, nearly running into Heather in his haste. He blinks at her in astonishment, clearly not prepared for the presence of a second mortal. Then he departs, avoiding even a glance in my direction. 'Big horns,' Heather mouths, looking after him. 'Little dude.' Cardan leans against the doorframe, looking very satisfied with himself.

He didn't dare think about the past, and he wouldn't let himself think about the future.

Beside them, anyone might as well be a shadow, a blurry reflection of a reflection.

You ought not to be here tonight, little ant

When I'm with him, I feel like the hero of a story. Of my story. It's when he's not there that things don't feel right.