“But how do you find the right people-how do you love without smothering them? How do you not suffocate them with all the love you’ve built up in their absence?”— Simon Van Booy, amazon.com
“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?”— Milan Kundera, amazon.com
“I know you left hours ago I still haven't moved yet I knew you were gone months ago But I can't think of anyone else”— Julien Baker, open.spotify.com
“When you break up with someone, and I’m not talking casual breakups here, it’s hard to take the sudden absence of such an important person in your life. It reminded me of when I’d stopped going to school and the weird uneasy feeling I’d gotten afterward, like I was forgetting to do something. My lif…”— Lish McBride, amazon.com
“Your absence taught me how to live without you, time away taught me to find peace in being alone.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“Jane: Absence might make the heart grow fonder. Wilson: I don't think that's possible...You have no idea how much I love you.”— Nicholas Sparks, goodreads.com
“I felt her absence. It was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. You wouldn’t need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.”— James Dashner, amazon.com
“For now, though, he'd just have to add her name to the list of people he cared about who'd moved on. It was getting to be a long list, and it contained some pretty important names. In time, he thought, Aimee would probably seem like a footnote, but just now her absence felt bigger than that, like ma…”— Tom Perrotta, amazon.com