Quotes About Emptiness

What will we be without him?" Meredith whispered, clinging to her. "Less," was all Nina could think of to say.

A better mother would shape that anger into loss and then, at least, into the kind of memory of love one can sustain, but Vianne was too empty to be a good mother right now. She could think of no words that weren't a lie or useless.

We remember the missing as much as the lost, don't we?

It hurts almost more than I can bear. Tears sting my eyes again; I wipe them away impatiently. I am so tired of crying, so tired of feeling like half a person, but I don't know how to change things... (I have never felt so lost and alone.)

She knew sorrow would hit her later, hit her hard, the sudden, aching realization that her father was Gone, that she'd never pick up the phone and hear his voice again, or go to her mailbox and get a letter written in his bold, sweeping hand.

Hey, Daddy," she whispered. It was a split second before she realized that she'd expected an answer. But, of course, there wasn't one. His heart—the one that had loved her so well—had finally given up.

She had felt lonely for years, but now she truly was alone.

The father who went off to war was not the one who came home. She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was as impossible as the other. In

It was only possible to live without love when you'd never known it.

KeÅŸke geri gelseydi... KeÅŸke hiç gitmeseydi... Anlam?yor muydu? Ondan baÅŸka kimsesinin olmad???n? anlam?yor muydu? Onsuz bu dünyan?n ürkütücü, tuhaf, soÄŸuk, yaln?z ve boÅŸ bir yer olduÄŸunu anlam?yor muydu?

This will be a lot of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Elsa felt tears rise up, overtake her. She cried as she hadn't cried since Rafe left her, cried until there was no moisture left inside of her, until she was as dry as the land they'd left behind.

Uyumak, uyumak, uyumak ve bir daha hiç uyanmamak istiyordu. Büyük bir çaresizliÄŸin içine düÅŸtüÄŸünü hissediyordu ve bir ç?k?? yolu, onu gülümsetecek bir ÅŸey bulam?yordu. Her ÅŸeyden ar?nd?r?lm?? bu yerde göz gezdirirken k?ymetli ya da önemsenmeye deÄŸer bir ÅŸey bulam?yordu.

Their whole relationship seemed to be made of air, filled with nothing.

If there was one central lesson of her life, it was this: people leave. Parents. Lovers. Friends.

Lexi had learned the truth about love then, how close it could be to hate, and how it could empty you out.

He is my home," her mother said, shaking her head. "How will I live without him?

We remember the missing as much as the lost.

What will we be without him?" Meredith whispered, clinging to her. "Less," was all Nina could think of to say.

Had she learned nothing in life? People left. She knew that. They especially left her.

Inside, the house echoed the voice of a man who wasn't there.

she hardly missed him. In fact, she didn't miss him at all. She missed the idea of him. She missed a second plate at the dinner table, another body in this bed that seemed to have enlarged in his absence.

Don't talk to me, don't approach me, don't ask your ordinary, everyday questions when my world has exploded.

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep in her bones.