Her Absence Quotes
17 quotes by 15 authors
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As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her…
— Robert Wiersema
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I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline…
— Hope Edelman
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Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick. Quentin's sickness was…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.
— Haruki Murakami
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Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.
— Margaret Atwood
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Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like mad…
— Henry Miller
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You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence…
— Neil Gaiman
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It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to…
— Alain de Botton
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally…
— C.S. Lewis
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Her absence had felt like torture--almost a form of personal punishment. He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he…
— Steig Larsson
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Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence.
— Karen Marie Moning
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i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror…
— James Dashner
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Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
— C.S. Lewis
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I watch her blond head until it disappears around the bend, and I feel bare, like there's nothing left to protect me against pain. Her…
— Veronica Roth
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Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect,…
— Pietro Aretino
Who Wrote These Her Absence Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 17 Her Absence Quotes as follows: