Quotes About Presence

try to live in the now and keep my eye on the hummingbird. I see no one I used to know, but then I'm not just crazy about a lot of people. I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?

My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.

And how could the Internet bring him to her, if he wasn't showing up on his own two feet?

There's no such thing as magic," I said. "Then call it something else." She shrugged. "Call it attitude, if you like. Call it charisma, or chutzpah, or glamour, or charm. Because basically it's just about standing straight, looking people in the eye, shooting them a killer smile, and saying, fuck off, I'm fabulous.

And yet I could still hear them. As if some part of their essence had evaporated into the air, become a part of this place, ingrained, like the scent of cigarettes and burning sugar, in the woodwork and plaster. Everything was buzzing with that vanished presence, buzzing and singing and laughing louder than ever before, stone and tile and polished wood, all whispering with agitation and excitement; never still, never silent.

Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.

A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you were so important to me that I put down everything else to come watch.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

This was something she would keep hidden within herself, maybe in place of the knot of pain and anger she had been carrying under her breastbone...a security blanket, an ace up her sleeve. She might never use it, but she would always feel its presence like a swelling secret stone, and that way when she let go of the rage, she would not feel nearly as empty.

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.

Men don't traipse. We... Swagger

She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.

Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.

Everyone is afraid of saying the wrong thing. It's more important to be there than to be right.

You keep distracting me," I tell her. "All I'm doing is sitting here talking to you!" "Exactly," I say, and I smile at her.j

Life sometimes gets so bogged down in the details, you forget you are living it.

If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them.

God can bless you wherever you are.

Here I am where I ought to be.

I want my life to match my work now. I don't want to work and then travel. I want to be at one place.

Life is more than worth living, when you realize someone from somewhere is thinking about you.

Everyday, you have shown how kind and pure your heart is. How beautiful and lively your soul is. I see the beauty of the world through your eyes and in your presence I find all the courage to take on the fear I use to have within.