“What's right is what breaks hearts and leaves the night empty and cold.”
“Empty, empty, empty; silent, silent, silent. The room was a shell, singing of what was before time was; a vase stood in the heart of the house, alabaster, smooth, cold, holding the still, distilled essence of emptiness, silence.”
“Only Gracie knew what it was like to wake up at night and feel how cold sheets can get on the empty side of a bed.”
“Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.”
“Inspiration was a temperamental guest. It dropped in unannounced, then left without so much as a goodbye, slipping out a window in the dead of night or sauntering out the front door, leaving the house empty, drafty, and cold.”
“Right then, it didn't matter what his reasons were. All I knew that I was sick of him breaking my heart.”