Placed Quote by Dirk Patton

“I saw the void beneath the surface of the world; it threatened to pull me under.”

— Rachel Hartman

“A few moments after he found himself on the stage amid the garish gas and the dim scenery, acting before the innumerable faces of…

— James Joyce

“Void fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling.”

— Georges Bernanos

“There was already something dead about him. He didn’t rear back in his knees any longer. He squatted over his ankles when he walked.…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“He was up to his neck in it. He was breathing the air of its world, adapting to its gravity. The story's essence had…

— Haruki Murakami

“What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere.”

— André Aciman

“There would always be a void. And my shoulders shook with relief that I didn’t have to fill it.”

— Amanda Sun

“Not to fall was too hard, too hard; and he felt the silent lapse of his soul, as it would be at some instant…

— James Joyce

“As if grabbed by strong arms that were not there, he felt himself being lifted. Raising skyward and spinning, he fought to regain orientation.…

— Stephen Craig

“His position at that moment was like the position of a man standing over a frightful precipice, when the earth breaks away under him,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“On the thought a blessed silence came, an empty clarity. He took it a first for utter desolation, but desolation was a type of…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“He sat leaning forward in the seat with his elbows on the empty seatback in front of him and his chin on his forearms…

— Cormac McCarthy