As the days and weeks and seasons wore on he found himself repeating this nothing, not wanting to. Gradually he came to understand that this particular nothing was all that he could really say now. He chanted it to himself in cell blocks and dingy apartments, recited it like a litany, ripped himself to rags against the sharp and ugly poetry of it. It echoed down the grimy hallways and squandered moments of his life, the answer to every question, the lyric of all songs. . Scott Hawkins
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  2. Nothing is the whole story. The self’s curse — and the writer’s. - Glen Duncan

  3. There's a fine line, you know. Between having space and having nothing. - Anne Corlett

  4. As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much. - Francine Pascal

  5. To do nothing is the way to be nothing. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  1. Carolyn — I need you to go back into America. We need an innocent heart. We will offer it to Nobununga when he arrives. Do you think you can handle that?”“ An innocent heart? In America?” She hesitated.

  2. Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

  3. In the Library you took your good times where you could find them.

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