Empty Quotes

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In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg. — Jules Renard
I didnâ€™t want any flowers, I only wanted to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have… — Sylvia Plath
With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as… — Scott Westerfeld
For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a… — Richard Ford
Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,â€ Gram said. â€œIf you have three or four â€“or more â€“ chickabiddies,… — Sharon Creech
Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from… — Rick Moody
Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves.… — David Bohm
I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so… — Michel Houellebecq
On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere,… — Mark Haddon
Regrets came up and asked me if Iâ€™d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I… — Steve Toltz
An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good.… — Haruki Murakami
There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs… — Tom Stoppard
She looked out then, through the crowd, and saw Simon with the Lightwoods, looking at her across the empty space that separated them. It was… — Cassandra Clare
I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night… — Khaled Hosseini
As I followed Margo's directions through the maze of one-way streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting on benches, but… — John Green
Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure… — Jeff Lindsay
I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars. — Raymond Chandler
They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where… — Miranda July
The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
In the Tarot deck, the Fool is depicted as a young man about to step off a cliff into empty air. Most people assume that… — Richard Kadrey

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