“In the most complete friendship there is always a little empty space, like the space in an egg.”

“Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space.”

“She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond","What does?""This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.”

“And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.”

“We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.”

“When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.”