“Because, unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like, I have not been able to identify its presence.”
“It's not about having an absence of fear, it's about having dominance over it.”
“For a second I felt content, an emotion so unfamiliar it took me a moment to identify it.”
“Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.”
“Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.”
“Culture primarily witnesses the absence of meaning, not it's presence.”