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“People became more interested in my love life than in me, and that has a certain effect. You start to feel very empty and worth nothing, you start to become a piece in a board game you never wanted to play.”

People Feels Play Wanted Certain Games Pieces Effects Empty Boards Love Life Board Games

Author:Anna Friel

“A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.”

Source: Frost and Fire

“An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.”

People Pieces Stupid Taste Travel Empty Ugly Here And There Tourists Rubbish Stupid Things Pausing Ugly Things

Book:A Small Place

Source: A Small Place

“Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.”

Sometimes Bigs Running Pieces Sadness Like You Sad Empty Tables Plates Pie

Author:Loretta Lynn

“There's only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivionorself-contempt. That's calmly to turn away from everything, to say, "Enough!" and, folding one's useless arms across one's empty breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of recognizing one's own insignificance.”

Way Self Enough Turns Fall Individual Virtue Pieces Arms Empty Ultimate One Way Useless Breasts Pessimism Contempt Sole Recognizing Renunciation Insignificance Folding

Author:Ivan Turgenev

“Dubai was brilliant, they looked around the world. They saw Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Sydney, London all ran British common law. British common law is much better for commerce than is French common law or sharia law. So they took 110 acres of Dubai soil, put British common law with a British judge in charge, and they went from an empty piece of soil to the 16th most powerful financial center in [the] world in eight years.”

“It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars.”

Life Soul Light Lost Stars Millions Pieces Empty Filled My Soul Across The Universe

Book:Across the Universe

Source: Across the Universe

“Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.”

Want Giving Made Enough Dream Fall Pieces Cutting Promise Empty Sells Aspiration Ashes Falling Apart Packages Empty Promises

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“Yet nothing can to nothing fall, Nor any place be empty quite; Therefore I think my breast hath all Those pieces still, though they be not unite; And now, as broken glasses show A hundred lesser faces, so My rags of heart can like, wish, and adore, But after one such love, can love no more.”

Thinking Heart Stills Shows Faces Fall Wish Pieces Broken Hundred Empty Glasses Breasts Adore Rags Broken Glass

Book:The Songs and Sonets of John Donne

Source: The Songs and Sonets of John Donne

“I had a weird, empty feeling inside me. Not a bad sort of empty. It was a sort of lack of sensation, like being in pain for a long time and then suddenly realizing that you're not anymore. It was the feeling of having risked everything to be here with a boy and then realizing that he was exactly what I wanted. Being a picture and then finding I was really a puzzle piece, once I found the piece that was supposed to fit beside me.”

Long Feelings Wanted Pain Found Realizing Boys Pieces Fit Findings Long Time Empty Sensations Puzzles Puzzle Piece

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I was an empty shell. Like a vacant house―condemned―for months I'd been utterly uninhabitable. Now I was a little improved. The front room was in better repair. But that was all―just the one small piece. He deserved better than that―better than a one-room, falling-down fixer-upper. No amount of investment on his part could put me back in working order.”

Littles Order Fall House Rooms Pieces Fronts Months Amount Empty Investment Shells Falling Down Vacant Small Pieces Empty Shell Fixers

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

Ifs World Mind Might House Bits Poor Study Pieces Broken Needed Empty Shoes Treasure Cinema Interfere Furniture Palaces Rubbish Bits And Pieces Empty Mind Sweepstakes

Author:Frank McCourt

“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

“The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at. A huge piece of carpeting, empty and naked plains, silent and uninterrupted stretches with nothing to alter the homogeneity of their continuity. I love wide, homogenous worlds, unstaked, unlimited like the sea, like high snows, deserts, and steppes.”

World Looks Pieces Sea Huge Roots Empty Bases Silent Wide Snow Naked Desert Unlimited Continuity Homogeneity

Author:Jean Dubuffet