“My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.”
“I'm fighting the shock of having a guest in my room. I almost kick her out because it's going to hurt too much when my room is empty again.”
“A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.”
“A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt.”
“My mind is quiet now. There is no fire or ash, no sulfur or shattering glass. Only silence, empty and cold.”
“Abby being in my room made it feel like home, and the emptiness no longer seemed right.”