He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.
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Related The pain in my heart was worse than anything I ever imagined. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't think. ... NELY CAB You are as ordinary as spring,' he murmured. 'As powerless as sunlight.' He ran his fingertips down ... CHARLOTTE LAMB An aching vacuum inside her sucking the air from her lungs. She hung her head and wept fiercely, the... ALAN BRENNERT This is probably the most devastating feeling I've ever felt. It's like a void inside, an emptiness ... BRANDON WORTHY Her young lover changed positions, grabbed her and pulled her rear up high . . . went inside her at ... ERIC JEROME DICKEY Her whole body ached; she ached, as if there were a terrible hollow emptiness inside her. CASSANDRA CLARE ...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe... TIM O'BRIEN The voids in her soul turned every touch of someone else into the reminiscent of his love inside her... AKSHAY VASU Only after loving you I realised I had an empty space; this little void, a tad bit of hol... NEENA H BRAR There might have been prettier women in the room but, when she turned those babies on, fluttered her... THOMM QUACKENBUSH He turned back to Lara, his alert gaze raking over her tearful face. Somehow the solid reality of hi... LISA KLEYPAS Suddenly he was inside the radius of her perfume and kissing her breathlessly. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart ... JUNOT DíAZ He firmly pulled her body against his and he brushed her lips with his. Staring into her eyes, he li... LANEY SMITH When he opened the gate of his heart for her to come inside, little did he know, she was looking for... NAMAN GARG I remember the strength of her body writhing inside the velvet. And, suddenly, the velvet was gone a... KATHLEEN VALENTINE Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about h... JEANNE DUPRAU Kiss her so deep on the inside, until you've become her introvert.
Make her heart pump so bad to pas... IAN IJH HOWELL Lonny is a proven NBA player who will be able to give us an inside presence and help fill the void l... ALLAN BRISTOW She was breathtaking in her beauty and her human spirit, he thought, unable to speak as he gazed upo... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE I didn’t do it on purpose.” His arms went around her. “I just . . . I just needed to keep you ... TESSA DARE He slept under the sky, holding her hand, filling the gaps between her fingers and losing himself in... AKSHAY VASU His agony somehow became an invisible hand, stretching out through the Force, a hand that found her,... MATTHEW WOODRING STOVER This is the most devastating feeling that I have ever felt. It's just an emptiness inside of you, a ... BRANDON WORTHY I guess part of me hoped that you'd come to me because you trusted me to help. And because maybe you... DEBORAH BLAKE They were mistaken if they thought he did not kill her because he loved her too much. At that moment... JORGE AMADO And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd be... JHUMPA LAHIRI I remember her as a beautiful young lady, inside and out. I remember her as someone who was very muc... CORNELIA KELLEY It was cool, his finger, being made of titanium, and he used it to stroke her, first on the outside,... KATHRYN DAVIS Everytime he looked at her she felt brighter inside, and she yearned to keep his attention, to hold ... JESSICA KHOURY I ache to hear her tell me she loves me, but forcing her to put words to how she feels pushes her fu... C.J. REDWINE Make him love you,” Ruthless Me whispered. “Make it so he can’t live without you. The devil yo... C.J. ROBERTS He was ruining it. Five minutes before, he’d looked at her with desire and she’d thought finally... ARIELLE HUDSON I can feel you watching me." Her breathy voice slid over him and it felt like her fingers were runni... SETTA JAY The woman had gasped beneath his heavy body. He rubbed against her, lubricated by the warm, sticky l... NATSUO KIRINO Cam restored her clothing slowly, his strong hands lifting her from the beech. Crushing her close, h... LISA KLEYPAS I couldn't tell what colour her eyes were. They were wet and dark and shining, like pools of deep, s... GLENDA MILLARD [T.J.] Without thinking, I held them out to her. She stopped laughing, and looked at me like she was... TRACEY GARVIS-GRAVES One of her arms was around his waist as her eyes fluttered open. He found himself lost in limpid blu... CAROLYN JEWEL He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sou... BRANDON SANDERSON Her hopeless love swelled up inside her, crying for an outlet, and all she could do was hold it sile... LYN DUCOTY If you want me, love,” he whispered, “tell me in Romany. Please.” Blindly Amelia turned ... LISA KLEYPAS It felt like there was a whole world living inside her. I didn't know anything about that world. BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ That was all Celaena needed to hear before she tossed the ring to Maeve, before Rowan rushed to her,... SARAH J. MAAS Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn’t in va... ROY L. PICKERING JR. I had to revise all my feelings once again. I pulled out the dregs of affection from the glass of mi... ANURADHA BHATTACHARYYA Brooke is a force inside and we didn't feel like single-coverage was going to do the job. In the fir... KATHY OLIVIER She's a Division I player. When we needed some baskets inside, we went three times in a row to her. ... DAN FEAGLER There was something inside of her that was shining from her. I wanted what she had. She was filled w... MARLENE ROSENBERG exhilaration fizzed through Clarke’s body. Before she realised what she was doing, she had thrown ... KASS MORGAN If he's unable to play, someone else will have to step up and fill the void. RENE MIRANDILLA Then I looked right at Mama, for the first time in what seemed like forever, and she wasn't looking ... KATHERINE HANNIGAN I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't ... CHARLES BRONSON He needed to gather her up, hold on to her, anything to help her stop trembling. Something was going... TARA JANZEN But he was bigger and stronger and his hands reached up behind her to the back of her head, ignoring... KIMBERLY DERTING One of our best managers, her second language is English. We needed her to get better at English to ... BETH WILSON I’m still not good enough for a girl like her, but she’s back in my life and she needs someone t... KATIE MCGARRY How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized h... REBECCA SOLNIT I didn't see Angela until her second-to-last high school basketball game. I didn't know much about h... NANCY WINSTEL I have something for you.” “Yeah? What? Is it shiny?” They both waited until Indigo ... NALINI SINGH He stopped moving for the space of a heartbeat. He bent his head to her shoulder and rocked his hips... CAROLYN JEWEL I was confident I had taught her all she needed to know. But she'd built up a false sense of securit... BETH TWITTY And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months s... SUZANNE COLLINS For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gapi... JONATHAN DARMAN I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our... ISAAC MARION But more than that, he admired the way she'd always spoken her mind. He remembered that after they'd... NICHOLAS SPARKS She was confused. One of the questions she had was, 'Did someone go to jail for it?' It hurt to tell... CONNIE TRUJILLO I needed to touch her, like I needed to breathe. KAMI GARCIA She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. ZORA NEALE HURSTON What are you doing?" she asked. Grimacing, he considered returning his mouth to hers and ... LORRAINE HEATH She chose to freeze her heart, and then stored it deep inside her freezer. She will let it ther... KUSUMASTUTI His hands tightened on her shoulders as the truth washed over him. My God, she really had told him y... CAROLYN JEWEL We talked for a brief minute (inside a local pool hall), and I asked (Jackson) what had happened. He... BILLY BURNS It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had... ORSON SCOTT CARD Right now I felt like a person learning that a surgeon had left a pair of scissors inside her during... ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN She carried a thousand lights inside her heart, and a thousand lights carried her. VATSAL SURTI He said, 'I don't want you to call her no more, leave her alone.' ... He was really fired up. I star... FRANK MINUCCI Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then ho... ALICE HOFFMAN The man held himself still and turned his milk-flooded eyes on her. Fin felt something like vertigo ... A.S. PETERSON Elza needed challenges in her life, needed to be occupied. Without walls to climb or windmills to at... MARC FITTEN Elza needed challenges in her life, needed to be occupied. Without walls to climb or windmills to at... MARK FITTER I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I op... EMILY BRONTë To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that sh... ANTHONY TROLLOPE His body was urgent against her, and she didn't have the heart anymore to fight...She saw his eyes, ... D.H. LAWRENCE He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. Th... LEIGH BARDUGO Get inside before I spank you in public." There it was again, another of his maddening t... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England. ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT) It was at first almost as if he hadn't wanted to kiss her. His mouth was hard on hers, unyielding; t... CASSANDRA CLARE As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that ... HARUKI MURAKAMI She struggled against him and then kicked him with her knee, right between his legs. He won’t be t... AMBER M. KESTNER I know what it felt . . . like when I . . . thought you were dead, and-" A small gasp for breath, an... DIANA GABALDON Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beau... AMEDEO MODIGLIANI In the garden, the Captain of the Guard stared up at the young woman's balcony, watching as she walt... SARAH J. MAAS The yawn of the void. A siren call for the unimaginative DEAN CAVANAGH She is curled up inside his smell. He always made her feel both safer and smaller – the latter the... GLENN HAYBITTLE She placed her arms and hands strategically over the areas of her body that she felt uncomfortable w... TRACEY-ANNE MCCARTNEY He towered over her, dwarfing her with his height and the bulk of his body which was clothed in the ... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE It's time to fill the void with me. KIMBERLEY ESHUIS I miss him,” she whispered, her voice cracking. His heart constricted at the grief on her fa... KAYLEA CROSS He cupped his hand around her cheek, and she marveled at how perfectly his palm fit her cheek. His f... SUMMER HINES
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Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate... HARUKI MURAKAMI I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, gra... HARUKI MURAKAMI Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly... HARUKI MURAKAMI Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't kee... HARUKI MURAKAMI But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain. HARUKI MURAKAMI Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in scho... HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a... HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I... HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m... HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things... HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana ? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin... HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. HARUKI MURAKAMI You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get. HARUKI MURAKAMI When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unh... HARUKI MURAKAMI George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don... HARUKI MURAKAMI You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes yo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at ... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets. HARUKI MURAKAMI These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say somethi... HARUKI MURAKAMI From his shoulder on down, the Rat felt the supple weight of her body. An odd sensation, that weight... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you. HARUKI MURAKAMI He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was... HARUKI MURAKAMI The ocean was one of the greatest things he had ever seen in his life—bigger and deeper than anyth... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted. HARUKI MURAKAMI The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words. HARUKI MURAKAMI Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the... HARUKI MURAKAMI A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose ... HARUKI MURAKAMI They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were n... HARUKI MURAKAMI Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off. HARUKI MURAKAMI But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even... HARUKI MURAKAMI Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jo... HARUKI MURAKAMI I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Night... HARUKI MURAKAMI I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you nee... HARUKI MURAKAMI Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. HARUKI MURAKAMI Nah, I shook my head, things that come out of nowhere go back to nowhere, that’s all. W... HARUKI MURAKAMI We fell silent again. The thing we had shared was nothing more than a fragment of time that had died... HARUKI MURAKAMI It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical HARUKI MURAKAMI I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book;... HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe I am fated to always be alone, Tsukuru found himself thinking. People came to him, but in the ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness. HARUKI MURAKAMI The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be lear... HARUKI MURAKAMI People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring. HARUKI MURAKAMI Wherever there's hope there's a trial. HARUKI MURAKAMI The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's... HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm just ordinary guy, ordinary family, ordinary education, ordinary face, ordinary exam results, or... HARUKI MURAKAMI He wasn't normally conscious of it, but there was one part of his body that was extremely sensitive,... HARUKI MURAKAMI Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are ... HARUKI MURAKAMI