“I felt like I was missing something. Missingyou more. Missing whatever was going to happen next.”

“But the past coupleof days I’ve missed you so much it’s felt like missing youis all I am.”

“I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.”

“People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes,' he said. '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.”

“I felt like I had lost something. But not something silly, like my keys or my gum; more like my arm or my foot, something that really mattered. Like something that I could live without, but would make life much harder if it were missing. And life is hard enough. Life is hard enough with everything we're given.”

“And I never go insane missing something I never really had.”