Gothic-romance Quote by Christine Fonseca

“Because she was connected to you. Because even despite her absence, she existed and you existed. You are a fact in each other’s lives…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“She didn't recognize him and he didn't recognize her, because people and places change and what once was will never be again.”

— T.C. Boyle

“There he was, just as she saw him: the shadow of someone she had never met.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Sometimes she was even sure that she had ever really existed.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

“It was as though she had some alter ego who told her she did not belong here. But she had never known anywhere else,…

— Penelope Lively

“I never knew her in life. She exists for me through others, in evidence of the ways her death drove them”

— James Ellroy

“She would never know she was still alive because of me.”

— Rita Dinis

“I'm not the same person I was before, and I am deathly afraid I will never be her again...”

— Jodi LaPalm

“No one but her, never before, never again.”

— Laurelin Paige

“She would be invisible, of course. No one would hear her. And nothing has happened, really, that hasn't happened before.”

— Margaret Atwood

“I'm here because of the way she loves me with no reservations. She doesn't hold anything back, but gives it all to me as…

— Amy Bartol

“She certainly seems to have a life, not just an existence.”

— Gail Honeyman