“. . . she dreamed of nothing, for she hoped for nothing and expected nothing. It was as cold and dark inside her as out in the frosty night.”
“...She felt that nothing could kill her hope now, nothing. She was seventy-five and she was going to make some changes in her life.”
“To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.”
“He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.”
“Because as far as she was concerned, there was no in-between: She wanted all or nothing, illogically, irrationally, even though something inside her knew that nothing would be too hard, and all was impossible.”
“People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.”