“Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more,
and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness
that robs the joy from life.”
-Merle Shain

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the
human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”
— Haruki Murakami

“There’s just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise. ”
— Sarah Dessen

“Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.”
— Jeanette Winterson

“Grief … gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn’t seem worth starting anything.
I can’t settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time.
Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness.”
— C.S. Lewis

“To me, you were more than just a person. You were a place where I finally felt at home.”
— Denice Envall

Except it was all fake. Teenagers in love put each other up on pedestals all the time. That’s okay. Teenagers can do that. Just know that when you grow up you’ll have to accept that not everyone actually  belonged there. Prince Charming isn’t someone you find. He’s someone you  awaken inside of another. If he’s in there. They’re not always in there. That doesn’t make you the fool. What was inside of you  was real, even if what you thought you saw inside of him wasn’t.