Absence Quote by Rick Riordan

“Then someone else appeared from the crowd, and Annabeth's vision tunneled. Percy smiled at her-that sarcastic, troublemaker's smile that had annoyed her for years…

— Rick Riordan

I'd missed Annabeth probably more than I wanted to admit.

— Rick Riordan

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…

— Anonymous

“didn’t take long after the divorce for Anna to notice just how bad things had gotten and that they were probably going to get…

— Claire Charlins

She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed…

— Michael Ende

He was gone, and she was broken hearted, that was all that mattered.

— Danielle Steel

Maybe that's why he had started to fear suffocation. It wasn't so much drowning in the earth or sea but the feeling that he…

— Rick Riordan

He'd come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that's what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because…

— Melvin Burgess

Annabel looked down. Her hands were shaking. She couldn't do this. Not yet. She couldn't face the man she'd kissed who happened to be…

— Julia Quinn

And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more…

— John Green

“She had realised that they couldn't be together. She didn't want to make a romantic drama out of it, she didn't want to sigh…

— Harriet Evans

“Instead, he was still acting distant from her in many subtle ways, and although they continued to sleep in the same bed, there had…

— Robin Cook