Willow Shields Quotes

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

I really miss a lot of my friends out there.

The game isn't the same when we're apart.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.

Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can't enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in L.A.

The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends.

I'm really proud of 'Coming Home.' I wrote that about Eric, and I just feel like it's very relatable for anyone who has to be away from their loved ones, you know, for long periods of time - our military, people who are working. It's pretty special.

I've been away from my family even when I was in France.

I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.

I never had a lot of friends growing up so having this insane amount of love and support really means a lot to me.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

“I often think,” said she, “that there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.”

For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.

Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?

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

Nobody can miss you unless you go away.

I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.

You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're even still alive.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.