“Missing her kept him awake more than the coffee.”

“How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she was gone you would not miss her?”

“She misses him more now than when he was away”

“Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words. In that silence, she had peace and clarity. Except during the night, when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake.”

“Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.”

“It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point.”

“He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.”

“He sounded harassed more than anything else, like mass home invasion was just something standing between him and morning coffee.”

“I want to talk to him. I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her.”

“This morning, with her, having coffee”