Quote by John Green

“There is something absent in me, I thought. Something incomplete. Even my mother couldn't describe me. There was something empty in me that in…

— Julie Schumacher

“I lowered myself into an armchair. I was enveloped in a cloud of dust. All that remained of my life was in my lap.…

— Sandra Gulland

“I suppose a room is the summation of all that has happened inside it.”

— Amor Towles

“And it is strange that absence can feel like presence. A missing so complete that if it were to go away, I would turn…

— Ally Condie, Crossed

“The room was large, and largely empty. The pace would pick up later in the evening. For now, the action comprised just a few…

— Barry Eisler

“...I had decided to tidy up a bit. Actually it hadn't really been a choice. The situation had got out of hand, particularly because…

— Gianrico Carofiglio

“Everything was quiet now. It was even too freaky quiet. The house seemed big without anyone else inside. It felt lonely; like a ghost…

— Erica Sehyun Song

“The house felt strange. Altered. Like someone had come in during the day and shrunk all the furniture just a tiny bit.”

— Anne Ursu

“In the widely open cup of the armchair was I-330. I, on the floor, embracing her limbs, my head on her lap. We were…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“His absence was a presence. Who knew an empty space could take up so much room.”

— Jacqueline Simon Gunn

“The furniture would have missed you? Furniture's knowing all right. Not much gets past the things in a room, I daresay, and chairs and…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“She wondered what she would do or say if someone walked through the archway, but it was night, and the nights here were very…

— James S.A. Corey