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“She sheltered her colors in the dark, where others were blind to see; I caught a glimpse of her lastly when she gave me a chance, before disappearing into the day. There was beauty locked in her th...”
“I kiss her ghost, and sleep with the dust on her photograph, next to my bedside.”
“I just wanted to tell you, how beautiful you were; that day, that night, that life.”
“YOU YOU YOUyour eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edgesa book of myths in which i do not appear.”
“At this moment God might not necessarily be a necessity, but know that His absence will of necessity eventually result in His necessity.”
“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
“But thou art with us, with us in the past,The present, with us in the times to come.There is no grief, no sorrow, no despair,No languor, no dejection, no dismay,No absence scarcely can there be, fo...”
“I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.”
“My mind couldn't fit itself around the shape of his absence.”
“You shine brighter than the sun""But even the sun goes away every night""But it is hte sun's absence that makes us feel its power. We know the loss, the beauty and the life that the moon can't repl...”
“Take it easy when you are busy! It shall never be easy but, take it easy!”
“With Dante gone, time seemed to stand still around me; the mornings just as cloudy and dark as the evenings, as if the sun had never decided to rise. There was no wind, like the world was holding i...”
“I had seen the few things I cared about forget me seamlessly. I had seen the life I never really fit into heal up around my absence like a wound scabbed over.”
“absencelooks like a lake bed flooded with skysounds like cotton howlingtastes like tear-stained pillowssmells like churning bile and burnt hairfeels like screaming agony, my heart dying and dying”
“People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes. The first day is really hard but the next day is less hard and so forth, easier and easier the longer you go on. But i...”
“You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life.”
“i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone”
“Unfailing friends are essential, when presence and absence are wrangling in our daily living, and our presence is rampaged by murk and woe, while passion and lust for life are trampled. Reliable al...”
“Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.”
“This bed yawnsbeneath the weightof our absent selves.”
