Arms Quote by Kirsten Miller

She wasn't feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart…

— Rachel Vincent

“She felt it when she woke, not a presence but an absence.”

— Paula Hawkins

Her heart began to ache, and she felt the numbness slip away. Misery welled up inside her. She clamped down on it, trying to…

— Lili Wilkinson

She was tired, with that tiredness that only emptiness brings.

— Paolo Giordano

She looked around herself, disoriented, like she’d forgotten we were at lunch. Like she’d forgotten we were even at school-surprised that we were not…

— Stephenie Meyer

She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so…

— Ann Brashares

“Most of all, she'd missed feeling connected to someone else. Being a vital part of them—aching when they were on a trip, knowing that…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

She felt herself needing more and more sleep. When she awoke in the morning, she thought of when she might lie down again -…

— Susan Sontag

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

— Liane Moriarty

But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself…

— Debbie Macomber

She walked quickly around her one-room apartment. After more than four years in this one home she knew all its possibilities, how it could…

— Shirley Jackson

...there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie