Sarah Dessen Empty Quotations

I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.

An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way.

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.