Quote by Jodi Picoult

“It was like standing at the end of everything.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“Perhaps now, though, he had hit bottom. One thing about the bottom, he told himself, you can't fall any further. He tried to take…

— James Baldwin

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

— Ray Bradbury

“And as I looked at him, I suddenly felt, for the very first time in my life, utterly, entirely alone. That something was gone…

— Jim Butcher

“He felt like a big empty jug. The thing to do with something empty was fill it up.”

— Terry Pratchett

“I stood there feeling nowhere.”

— Richard Matheson

“There it was, that weightless rush, that floor-bottoming-out exhilaration that comes from saying something you can't take back.”

— Brittany Cavallaro

“He felt all of the tension rush out of him. Without it, he could hardly stand up.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“He had yet to discover what destroyed that desire. But he did not dwell on it. He thought rather of whatever had happened to…

— Toni Morrison

“At that moment it meant nothing to him who might be standing over him, or what was said of him; he was only glad…

— Leo Tolstoy

“I stood still for a few moments, watching him go, a tall, thin, noiseless shadow. Then the realization of it rushed over me: he…

— Téa Obreht

“He was standing on the little ledge of reality he had left, but it seemed to me that he wasn't getting high, just getting…

— Colum McCann