Megan McCafferty Quotes

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.

I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.

I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Contemplating Christmas when you are isolated and far from home brings its own unique pain.

I really miss a lot of my friends out there.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall

Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.

I just hope that you miss me a little when I'm gone.

Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [...] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves.

But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.

I think of you, I dream of you, I conjure you up when I need you most. This is all I can do, but to me it isn't enough. It will never be enough, this I know; yet what else is there for me to do? If you were here, you would tell me, but I have been cheated of even that. You always knew the proper words to ease the pain I felt. You always knew how to make me feel good inside.

This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.

I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.

I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.