Absent Quote by Diane Setterfield

“I've missed you." The words were no sooner out than she realized that she didn't mean them at all.”

— J.D. Salinger

“Her name is Emmilina. She is quite eccentric and was Thomas’s best friend.”

— Jessica Fortunato

“She affected me, even when she was absent.”

— Shannon A. Thompson

“You didn't care about the … the name.' 'Not the name.'. He led my gaze, unfaltering, unblinking. 'Just the girl.”

— Catherine Doyle

“Olivia, if you need anything give me a call. I’m never far. N.”

— M. Leighton

“You don't need to know my name. You'll forget it soon enough.”

— Norihiro Yagi

“Anna," he said for the fourth time, as if there was nothing more to say, now that she'd finally answered. Nothing but her name.…

— Antonia Michaelis

“Interesting. Why would I tell him to call me ‘Allie’? I was pretty sure that girl didn’t even exist any more.”

— Jenni Moen

“(she told me her name, though she might have seen, I am sure, that I was simply dying not to know it)”

— Mary Findlater

“I know names aren’t important. It’s the person behind them.”

— Jessica Lawson

“She had not been the sort to have cared about the naming of things that existed well without it…”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“If you don't know a name, you can't be hurt when they go. I have no friends anymore, all are lost.”

— Patricia Hamill