#hollow

I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood on the sidewalk, a nothing, a gatherer of dust. People hurried past me. and everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#forgotten #hollow #loneliness #love

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#burning-up #delirium #fire #lauren-oliver #lena-holloway

We'll walk together holding hands, and kiss in broad daylight, and love each other as much as we want to, and no one will ever try to keep up apart. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#delirium #lauren-oliver #lena-holloway #love #sweet

Please don’t carve me another heart—‘tis easier to photosynthesize than to love ↗

— S.D. Foster

#subsidence #love

So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do, depending on the season and the need. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#love #love

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe. ↗

— Nicholas Breton

#foe #friend #hellish #hollow #know

But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#get #god #heart #hollow #legal

Constant dripping hollows out a stone. ↗

— Lucretius

#dripping #hollows #out #stone

That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#the-hollows #trent #anger

I am afraid that the ordinary citizen will not like to be told that the banks can and do create and destroy money. And they who control the credit of a nation direct the policy of governments, and hold in the hollow of their hands the destiny of the people. ↗

— Richard McKenna

#am #banks #citizen #control #create