Quote by Laini Taylor

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

— Nick Hornby

“Absence is a curious thing. When friends are absent, they seem to loom ever larger, till the lack of them is all one can…

— Libba Bray

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

— Mark Epstein

“Absent- that was what he was: so absent from everything most densely real and near to those about him that it sometimes startled him…

— Edith Wharton

“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

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

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

Absence, the highest form of presence.

— James Joyce

“Absence of something can not dismiss the presence of anything.”

— SFathima

“I've amazed myself with how well I've learned to live around her absence. This void is my constant companion, no matter what I do.…

— Zinzi Clemmons

“She had forgotten how to transmute loneliness into mere aloneness, how not to fall into the hole of his absence.”

— Bar Fridman-Tell

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

— Ally Condie

“And we who loved the world must learn the language of absence: days foreshortened, empty rooms, the irrevocable distance between the goodbye and the…

— Joe Bolton