Friendships Quote by Joan Steinau Lester

“And it is strange that absence can feel like presence. A missing so complete that if it were to go away, I would turn…

— Ally Condie, Crossed

“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored. People talk to her, but…

— David Levithan

“Sometimes she felt invisible.”

— Melissa McClone

“His absence was a presence. Who knew an empty space could take up so much room.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“The pain of her absence makes me even more aware of how much she's become a part of me.”

— J.M. Sevilla

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

— Siri Hustvedt

“It was the absences that had made her think, not the presences.”

— Nick Hornby

“Any time I let it, the weight of living creeps in and starts to drag her down. It would be too easy to say…

— David Levithan

“She felt it when she woke, not a presence but an absence.”

— Paula Hawkins

“They talk about everything that happened right in front of me like I’m not there. They don’t see me. When you don’t see someone,…

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

“Another strange thing was how absence had intensified my feelings for her. How I craved the sweet everyday reality of just being with her,…

— Matt Haig

“Don’t make your presence known. Make your absence felt.”

— Colleen Hoover