“It was just that, no matter where I found myself, I felt like there was a hole inside me, with the wind rushing through. I never felt satisfied. From the outside you wouldn’t imagine I had any troubles.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Did ever occur to you that we don't wanna get in touch with our feelings? That actually feeling our feelings might make it impossible to survive in here?”— Poussey Washington, tvfanatic.com
“i want your tongue against the walls of my emptiness, to fill every hollow crevice through which light seeps from my soul.”— M. Ocean, amazon.com
“i do not want to have you to fill the empty parts of me i want to be full on my own i want to fill so complete i could light a whole city and then i want to have you cause the two of us combined could set it on fire”— Rupi Kaur, amazon.com
“I am the kind of empty that comes only when it’s known that I will never be filled again. The kind of empty that, well, there is no kind of empty that even begins to feel how I feel...I am empty. I am empty. I am empty.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.”— Ariel Gore, amazon.com
“He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish life. The rest was darkness. 'Damn it,' he sighed. 'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!'”— John Green, The General In His Labyrinth, amazon.com
“That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“What use is moonlight? I reach into it, fingers open, and my hand is silvered and blessed, and comes back to me holding nothing.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com