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 instead it’s like missing water. Every day, you notice the person’s absence more. Anne Tyler
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence. - Unknown
  2. Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great. - Unknown
  3. Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god.
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  4. Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it’s own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow. - Coco J. Ginger
  5. They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but absence also dulls the memory and then we tend to forget who we were missing in the first place. - Anthony T. Hincks
More Quotes By Anne Tyler
  1. I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
  2. It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.
  3. I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
  4. The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
  5. Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it, ' he told Ruth.'What, cremation?' she asked.' Death.
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