Absence Quote by Anonymous

...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

From the moment I told her about my dad, it was as if her whole body sighed in relief. As if someone else’s misery…

— Simone Elkeles

“She had been grief stricken as her father lay dying but now she felt weightless, the way people do when they're no longer sure…

— Alice Hoffman

Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval…

— Margaret Mitchell

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

— Thomas Hardy

“Silly little plastic belt, made for a skinny pinny; it could barely tie around her. She managed, though - a tiny white bow. Waiting,…

— Elizabeth Strout

“She closed her eyes, silently continuing the pleas that she be given words that might soothe, words that would begin the healing of bereaved…

— Jacqueline Winspear

But when she turned her back to the lights, she saw that the night was so dark...She could not see the stars. The world…

— Shannon Hale

But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself…

— Debbie Macomber

She smelled like England, of soft rain and sun-kissed meadows. And she felt like the best kind of heaven. He wanted to wrap himself…

— Julia Quinn

“The sensuality of her grief, thawing. Her power coming into focus, still so chaotic inside her. I love the way she splurged on this…

— Laurie Perez

She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley