“I miss you.…” He stroked the indentation of the gown where her waist would have been—should have been. “I miss you so much.”
“For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she’s never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.”
“Where have you been?" is not an empty question. anyone asking it is also saying "I missed you," "I want to be with you,""I need to know what you've been up to”
“I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.”
“Well, sweetheart. You have been missed. You’ve been missed dearly.”
“I miss you now, I guess like I should have missed you then.”