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“We linked hands—my ex-boyfriend, my boyfriend, and my former friend-then-enemy-then friend and I—and walked through a door to see if maybe empty carbs were good for something after all.”

Ifs Hands Enemy Doors Empty Former Linked Exes My Boyfriend Carbs Ex Boyfriend Former Friends

Author:Kiersten White

“Men had always told Kaladin that he fought like nobody else. He’d felt it on the first day he’d picked up a quarterstaff, though Tukks’s advice had helped him refine and channel what he could do. Kaladin had cared when he fought. He’d never fought empty or cold. He fought to keep his men alive”

Men Firsts Felt Alive Advice Cold Empty

Book:The Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive Book One

Source: The Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive Book One

“Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men.”

“And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away she’d be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. And every time she’d boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, she’d let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and she’d wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed.”

“I’ll wait for you. Come back. The words were not meaningless, but they didn’t touch him now. It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word.”

Persons Enough Waiting Emotion Clear Empty Heavy Meaningless Doing Nothing

Author:Ian Mcewan

“It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my heart, yes, even in my most helpless, futile, fruitless moments. The very cracks and empty crannies of my life, my perplexities and hurts and botched-up jobs, He wants to fill with Himself, His joy, His life...He urges me to learn of Him: 'I am gentle and humble in heart.”

Men Want Heart Moments Jobs Joy Hurt Trouble Events Son My Heart Empty Humble Gentle Urges Cracks Helpless Knocking Entrances Austerity Perplexity

Author:Elisabeth Elliot

“Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals.”

Said Culture Quality Empty Depth Nostalgia Authenticity Sensations Originality Signals Eclectic Disposable Superficiality Coherence Swirls Promiscuous

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.”

Water Empty Clean Dirty Pitcher Dirty Water

Author:Idries Shah

“… Her heart remained empty once more, and the procession of days all alike began again. So they were going to follow one another, like this, in line, always identical, innumerable, bringing nothing!”

Heart Lines Empty Identical Procession

Book:Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary

Source: Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary

“I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!”

Moving Rooms Heard Fronts Cry Window Empty Drinking Coffee Cups Ran Kitchen Bus Darling Living Room Drinking Coffee

Book:A Martin Luther King Treasury

Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury

“This was their first encounter with the fact that a full stomach meant good spirits; an empty one, bickering and gloom.”

Firsts Facts Spirit Empty Encounters Stomach Gloom Bickering

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. "I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts!”

Humans Hurt Wall Despair Angel Empty It Hurts Fury Nevermore

Book:Maximum Ride: Nevermore

Source: Maximum Ride: Nevermore

“Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.”

Moving Wealth Rooms Materials Comfort Intellectual Empty Servant Owners Quarters Palaces Sumptuous

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?”

Empty Emptiness Detachment Numbness

Book:Ray Bradbury 3-Book Collection: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man

Source: Ray Bradbury 3-Book Collection: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man

“Most of our difficulties, our hopes, and our worries are empty fantasies. Nothing has ever existed except this moment. That's all there is. That's all we are. Yet most human beings spend 50 to 90 percent or more of their time in their imagination, living in fantasy. We think about what has happened to us, what might have happened, how we feel about it, how we should be different, how others should be different, how it's all a shame, and on and on; it's all fantasy, all imagination. Memory is imagination. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life.”

Thinking Feels Should Humans Different Moments Might Imagination Memories Human Beings Worry Fantasy Our Lives Happened Percent Empty Difficulty Shame Sticks

Author:Joko Beck

“She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.”

Empty Stupidity Restaurants Resolve Deep Thought Shallowness

Book:Luminarium

Source: Luminarium

“The only good cage is an empty cage.”

Empty Cages

Book:The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants

Source: The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants

“Inside every child is an 'emotional rani's waiting to be filled with love. When a child really feels loved, he will develop normally but when the love tank is empty, the child will misbehave. Much of the misbehavior of children is motivated by the cravings of an empty 'love tank”

Feels Children Waiting Emotional Empty Filled Motivated Craving Tanks Language Of Love

Author:Gary Chapman

“Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space.”

Space Pieces Missing Empty Puzzles Empty Space Missing Piece

Author:Luanne Rice

“Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.”

Knows Dream Light Black Chance Sun Color Return Empty Our Dreams Whiteness Breeders Wetness

Author:Jim Carroll

“And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely.”

Feels Sound Walks Steps Strange Lonely Empty Halls So Lonely

Book:Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition

“The smell of the sea swept over the wall and in through the empty window-hole, wide and wild with a million intoxicating secrets. I don't trust that smell. It hooks us somewhere deeper than reason or civilization, in the fragments of our cells that rocked in oceans before we had minds, and it pulls till we follow mindlessly as rutting animals....It lures us to leap off high cliffs, fling ourselves on towering waves, leaves behind everyone we love and face into thousands of miles of open water for the sake of what might be on the far shore.”

“In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be a good idea to stop being young this minute, to wait for youth to break away from you and pass you by, to watch it going away, receding in the distance, to see all its vanity, run your hand through the empty space it has left behind, take a last look at it, and then start moving, make sure your youth has really gone, and then calmly, all by yourself, cross to the other side of Time to see what people and things really look like.”

“Beauty is an intangible thing; can not be fixed on the surface, and the wear and tear of old age on the body cannot defeat it. Nor will a "pretty" face make it, for "pretty" faces are often dull and empty, and beauty is never dull and it fills all spaces.”

Body Age Faces Space Tears Empty Defeat Surface Old Age Fixed Dull Can Not Intangible Pretty Face

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Now, almost one hundred years later, it is difficult to fully appreciate how much our picture of the universe has changed in the span of a single human lifetime. As far as the scientific community in 1917 was concerned, the universe was static and eternal, and consisted of a one single galaxy, our Milky Way, surrounded by vast, infinite, dark, and empty space. This is, after all, what you would guess by looking up at the night sky with your eyes, or with a small telescope, and at the time there was little reason to suspect otherwise.”

“Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty.”

People Important Ends Life Is Journey Car Empty Train Seats Stations Routes Passengers Train Stations

Book:False Memory

Source: False Memory

“I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.”

Source: Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)

“He looked down at his empty glass. "One of the other ways in which I am different from my father," he said. "I am not interested in marrying where I do not love." I spoke in a jesting voice. "And of all the women in the eight provinces, you have not been able to find one you could love?" Now he looked at me again, and his face was completely serious. "That's the problem," he said. "There is one.”

Way Said Different Problem Able Faces Father Voice Serious Empty Glasses Eight Spokes Not Interested Provinces Marrying

Author:Sharon Shinn

“Life's passed along to us empty. We have to make up the happiness part.”

Empty

Book:Canada

Source: Canada

“But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.”

Made Ends Light Given Shadow Empty Shining Lamps

Book:Molloy

Source: Molloy

“It is not how much empty space there is, but rather how it is used. It is not how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is arranged.”

Used Space Information Empty Empty Space

Author:Edward Tufte

“Is the glass half full, or half empty? It depends on whether you're pouring, or drinking.”

Half Depends Empty Drinking Glasses Alcohol Pouring Drinking Alcohol Great Drinking Great Alcohol Half Full Half Empty Glass Half Full

Author:Bill Cosby

“He thought about all the holes in him, the blank places, the voids where others felt things. When it came down to it, he was really just a screen, more empty than solid, his emotions blowing through him, only angry catching and holding.”

Felt Emotion Empty Angry Screens Holes Void Blank Catching

Book:J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4

Source: J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4

“Frank tugged again with no luck. Even Hazel was trying not to laugh. Frank grimaced with concentration. Suddenly, he disappeared. On the deck where he’d been standing, a green iguana crouched next to an empty set of Chinese handcuffs. “Well done, Frank Zhang,” Leo said dryly, doing his impression of Chiron the centaur. “That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.”

Source: A Grief Observed

“Wiggles hissed as I crossed the floor toward the throne. She fixed me with her empty hateful eyes and smelled the air, her long tongue shivering through the slit of the lipless mouth. Nice to see you too, sweetheart. Remember my cattle prod?”

Long Eye Remember Nice Air Mouths Empty Tongue Fixed Thrones Hateful Cattle Sweetheart Slits Nice To See You

Book:Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel

Source: Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel

“Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.”

World Ends Inspiration Christianity Victory Crosses Empty Adversity Defeat Psychological Sunshine Collapse Founders Catastrophe Calamity Tombs

Book:Life of Christ

Source: Life of Christ

“Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.”

“How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.”

Ifs Art Remember Rich Art Is Lonely Empty

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“Rochelle," she calls out, still looking at me. "Is there anyone down at the desk? I need something." I'm too startled to move. Is she going to tell on me, get me in trouble? Rochelle's gotten up; she's banging the toilet stall doors open one by one, checking to make sure no one's in there. When the last stall turns up empty, she gives Amanda an annoyed look. "What do you need this time of night?" Amanda smiles at me, then turns to face Rochelle. "A tampon”

Needs Giving Looks Stills Lasts Faces Moving Night Turns Trouble Doors Empty Desks Toilets Annoyed Banging Amanda Tampons

Book:Cut

Source: Cut

“The circus looks abandoned and empty. But you think perhaps you can smell caramel wafting through the evening breeze, beneath the crisp scent of the autumn leaves. A subtle sweetness at the edges of the cold.”

Thinking Looks Cold Empty Edges Smell Evening Subtle Autumn Abandoned Scent Sweetness Breeze Circus Crisps Autumn Leaves Caramel Night Circus

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.”

People Found Empty Boredom Contentment

Book:Beautiful Ruins: A Novel

Source: Beautiful Ruins: A Novel

“The clothes are packed off to Goodwill I said my good-byes up on the hill The house is empty, the furniture sold Soon your smell will decay to mold Don't know why I bother calling, ain't nobody answering Don't know why I bother singing, ain't nobody listening "Disconnect" Collateral Damage, Track 10”

Knows Said House Listening Calling Clothes Singing Empty Track Smell Hills Bother Damage Decay Furniture Mold Goodwill Bye Good Bye Collateral Collateral Damage

Book:Where She Went

Source: Where She Went

“i had that hole in me. that empty space...she put it in me, you filled it...she was part of my life. you are my life. if i have a regret, it,s that even for an instant you could think otherwise. or that i allowed you to. -Roarke”

Ifs Thinking Space Regret Empty Filled Holes Instant Empty Space

Author:Nora Roberts

“Just... ate," M says, frowning at me a little. "Two days...ago." I grab my stomach again. "Feel empty. Feel... dead." He nods. "Marr...iage.”

Feels Littles Two Empty Stomach Two Days Frowning

Book:Warm Bodies: A Novel

Source: Warm Bodies: A Novel

“Life can be so good if you let it. But you must trade with life. You give something and you get something, then you give something of yourself again and you receive something again. Life goes bad when people try to take from it without giving. Then they came away empty-handed, and they grab harder and more often, growing more disappointed and disillusioned each time.”

People Ifs Giving Trying Growing Empty Harder Trade Disappointed Disillusioned

Author:Judith McNaught

“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence.”

Knows Kissing Empty Forgotten Smallest Wounded Injured Relics Penitence

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath.”

Persons Made Different Helping Felt Differences Dark Empty Killing Grass Giants Spite Stomach Spiders Wizards All Alone Dwarves Empty Stomach Great Hobbit

Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.”

World Persons Whole Missing Empty Whole World Grieving Single Person Magical Thinking

Book:The Year of Magical Thinking

Source: The Year of Magical Thinking

“If I had been a different sort of person, maybe less impressionable, less intense, less fearful, less utterly dependent upon the perceptions of others - maybe then I would not have bought the cultural party line that thinness is the be-all and end-all of goals. Maybe if my family had not been in utter chaos most of the time, maybe if my parents were a little better at dealing with their own lives maybe if I'd gotten help sooner, or if I'd gotten different help, maybe if I didn't so fiercely cherish my secret, or if I were not such a good liar, or were not quite so empty inside... maybe.”

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