“Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that are no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.”— Gabriel García Márquez, amazon.com
“I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch. The time I annihilated while I waited like a man doing a life sentence. I need you like life needs life. I want you bad like a…”— Henry Rollins, amazon.com
“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“I still remember how it was before and I am holding back the tears no more. I love you.”— Paul McCartney, open.spotify.com
“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing togethe…”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn’t with me, I think I made him up.”— Jenny Downham, amazon.com
“I love you so much, much, much that it just hurts every minute I’m without you.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“God damn I hope you do miss the people you’ve loved sometimes — it means they mattered. It means they left footprints in your heart that weren’t able to be washed away.”— Janne Robinson, thoughtcatalog.com
“I am not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.”— Louisa May Alcott, amazon.com
“But I must admit I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby. I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“To miss her each time I pull in a breath of air. To miss her with a heart that feels so cold by itself, but warm when thoughts of her flow through me.”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“What are you supposed to do with all the love you have for somebody if that person is no longer there? What happens to all that leftover love? Do you suppress it? Do you ignore it? Are you supposed to give it to someone else?”— Maggie O'Farrell, amazon.com