Anne Tyler Quotes

I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.

Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.

It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.

I always miss my mom. Mother's Day would be just one more day I'd feel her absence but for the relentless commercialization. Thanks to that, this day is even harder to deal with.

I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The weary pen that sets my sorrow down Feeds at my heart. There is no mercy in the shifting year, No beauty wraps me tenderly about. I turn to little words- so you, my dear, Can spell them out.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

We all miss you so much. It just never ends. It feels like we were all wounded in your battle, Caroline. I miss you. I love you.

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

Issac:"I dislike living in a world without Augustus Waters." Computer: "I don't understand-" Issac: "Me neither. Pause

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.

I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.” from “Memoriam

But the absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

Why don't I watch the ocean?My lover's gone.No earthly ships will ever bring him home againbring him home again.

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form

I miss my mother very, very much.

I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.

When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.

I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.

When something you love gets taken away, it hurts you.