“But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.”

“Darkness is the absence of light. Happiness is the absence of pain. Anger is the absence of joy. Jealousy is the absence of confidence. Love is the absence of doubt. Hate is the absence of peace. Fear is the absence of faith. Life is the absence of death.”

“In a field, I am the absence of field. In a crowd, I am the absence of crowd. In a dream, I am the absence of dream. But I don't want to live as an absence. I move to keep things whole. Because sometimes I feel drunk on positivity. Sometimes I feel amazement at the tangle of words and lives, and I want to be a part of that tangle.”

“It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.”

“And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.”

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”