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“His absence was a presence. Who knew an empty space could take up so much room.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“Absent- that was what he was: so absent from everything most densely real and near to those about him that it sometimes startled him…

— Edith Wharton

“Funny how an absence can feel like a presence, like that space practically glows with her outline and make me notice how she's not…

— Joan Steinau Lester

“... the vacuum left by the departing visitor seemed to echo along the hallway and into the walls. It was at those times, when…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“She felt it when she woke, not a presence but an absence.”

— Paula Hawkins

“It was the absences that had made her think, not the presences.”

— Nick Hornby

“Maybe I had been alone in that apartment so much by then that I had retreated into some kind of inner, unsociable space that…

— Lydia Davis

“His eyes found mine, and for a moment I felt as if all the air in the room had retreated.”

— Barbara A. Shapiro

“There is a presence in what is missing.” That presence is our own.”

— Jonah Lehrer

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— khode maiish v

“Very simply, for the mind, absence can be a catalyst for presence.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“I was alone in that room. Of course, there were bodies all around, but they were all dead. They were dead when I got…

— Jarod Kintz