“Fulfillment leaves an empty space where longing used to be.”

“His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.”

“Sometimes you can only feel something by its absence. By the empty spaces it leaves behind.”

“All our days are marked with/unexpected/affronts--some/disastrous, others/less so/but the process is/wearing and/continuous./Attrition rules./Most give/way/leaving/empty spaces/where people should/be.”

“The thirty spokes unite in the one nave; but it is on the empty space (for the axle), that the use of the wheel depends.”

“The door and windows are cut out (from the walls) to form an apartment; but it is on the empty space (within), that its use depends.”