Absence Quote by Audrey Niffenegger

“When I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.”

— Audrey Niffenegger

“She was completely alone, only the distant call of a bird telling her a world existed outside of her circle of pain.”

— Roseanna White

“You see the bird and you see its flight. You can not see through its eyes. Therefore, you don't know its plight.”

— Amaka Nkosazana

“...Whoever said that pain healed with time was just making it up for something to say. Pain circled around up high like a bird…

— Emily Gale

“He was like a damaged bird. And they always die, she thought.”

— Sadie Jones

“There's a problem with wounded birds. Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no…

— Jodi Picoult

“You know, birds always find their way home, no matter the distance. Perhaps you will, too.”

— M.A. Kuzniar

“After a while, it all started to fade. No more pain, no more unwanted thoughts and no sound. Just darkness. I welcomed it. I…

— Ani San

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

— Siri Hustvedt

“It was funny stuff, sanity. When it was taken away, you didn’t know it. You didn’t feel its departure. You only really knew it…

— Stephen King

“It was like something lurking in the darkness within him...There is remained in the darkness, the great pain, tearing him at times, and then…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Dark wings, dark words, me mother used to say, but when the birds fly silent, seems to me that’s even darker.”

— George R.R. Martin