Absence Quote by Audrey Niffenegger

“But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.”

— Audrey Niffenegger

“There are so many things, he said quietly, that we can't see but that we believe in, so many places that seem to possess…

— Anne Michaels

“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

“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

“The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some…

— Katherine Catmull

“I want to grow old with you until my feathers go grey my beak wrinkles up and my wings are too weak to fly.…

— Rob Ryan

“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

“...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

“It was a darkness without time. It was an impenetrable darkness. To the right and left of me rose those terrible formless things of…

— Robert Leckie

“It is dark. You cannot see. Only the hint of stars out the broken window. And a voice as old as the Snake from…

— John Wick

“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

“For as I sit there, in pain, I suddenly notice I have changed. I am not self-loathing anymore. These billion cheap blackbirds inside me…

— Caitlin Moran