“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.”

Source: Old Man's War

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“Suddenly Corbell missed Mirabelle terribly. He mourned her, not because she was dead, but because she was gone.”

Larry Niven book A World Out of Time

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“A mother's love is a blessing
No matter where you roam.
Keep her while you have her,
You'll miss her when she's gone.”

Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes

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“She made me laugh. I will miss her. Baba Wawa.”

Barbara Walters (1929) American broadcast journalist, author, and television personality

Note sent to Gene Wilder, husband of the late Gilda Radner following Radner's death from ovarian cancer; Radner had done an impersonation of Walters where she had poked fun at Walters' difficulty in pronouncing the letter "r", introducing herself as "Baba Wawa". Stated in an interview at Inside the Actors Studio.

“It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

Source: How to Save a Life