{"quotes":[{"text":"Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing.","author":"Jacqueline Carey","tags":["dream","hollow"],"id":10532,"author_id":"Jacqueline+Carey"},{"text":"Don't pursue something with a vengeful heart, or it will destroy you. Hate wraps a cold hand around your heart and hollows you out.' - Justus.","author":"Dannika Dark","tags":["cold-hand","hate","heart","hollow","justus","mageri","twist","urban-fantasy","vengeful"],"id":41842,"author_id":"Dannika+Dark"},{"text":"There is an evil creeping insideThe darkness has a firm hold on meThere is a desire burning withinAmbition seeks to replace the air I breatheThere is a voice, relentless voice in my headMy peace has abandoned meThere is nothing but lonelinessA hollow place I can't traceA void filled with nothing but space A sorrow with which no one can relateI'm just an innocent girl longing for tranquillityBut I'm fading awayFear has taken over me.","author":"Evy Michaels","tags":["darkness","depression","despair","fear","hollow","loss","sorrow","void"],"id":54972,"author_id":"Evy+Michaels"},{"text":"Perhaps someday, when you are a father, Prince, you will understand how empty is your heart if your child is a hollow toy that you can move where you will him to be.","author":"Ashlee Willis","tags":["children","choices","father","hollow","toy"],"id":76565,"author_id":"Ashlee+Willis"},{"text":"It's strange. How hollow I feel. Like there might be echoes inside of me. Like I'm one of those chocolate rabbits they used to sell around Easter, the ones that were nothing more than a sweet shell encapsulating a world of nothing. I'm like that. I encapsulate a world of nothing.","author":"Tahereh Mafi","tags":["chocolate-rabbit","easter","echoes","encapsulating","hollow","juliette-ferrars","nothing","nothingness","shatter-me-series","shell","strange","tahereh-mafi","unravel-me"],"id":88837,"author_id":"Tahereh+Mafi"},{"text":"I think he's looking for comfort, but I don't have any to give.","author":"Jasmine Warga","tags":["comfort","emptiness","empty","hollow","life"],"id":125237,"author_id":"Jasmine+Warga"},{"text":"I looked up at the ivory towers above us all. Nowhere else equals the feral design of this city. Tall skyscrapers that act as gorges hollowing out between flat cement dancing into narrow alleyways like bottomless pits. Building walls rusted the color of blood. Sometimes when you look down the horizon from afar the city looks wider than it is, like a thin field of magical lights gleaming with the hopes of children and idealists; a light on at midnight in one of the penthouses or the changing hues of the Empire State Building. Most of the time though, the city is covered with a layer of honking cars and greed, sirens and the war cry of solicitors, all full of brambles and impenetrable conscience; garbage, steaming manholes, and heat waves twirling smog and pollution through your lungs like mirages as you walk breathlessly through a boiling desert.","author":"Bruce Crown","tags":["abyss","cities","claustrophobic","cosmopolitan","desert","hollow","new-york-city","skyscraper"],"id":170031,"author_id":"Bruce+Crown"},{"text":"He knows what he'll find if he digs deeper. There's no rush to unpack my insides. He understands there is nothing special about emptiness, nothing interesting about depression.","author":"Jasmine Warga","tags":["depression","emptiness","hollow","life","sadness"],"id":171318,"author_id":"Jasmine+Warga"},{"text":"Until I realize that it’s all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["acknowledge","appreciate","aware","awareness","empty","gift","hold","hollow","opportunities","opportunity","privilege","privileges","realize-realization","receive","thankful","thankfulness","thanksgiving"],"id":178874,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"It’s for the best. But no matter how many times I repeat it, the strange, hollow feeling in my stomach doesn’t go away. And ridiculous as it is, I can’t shake the persistent, needling feeling that I’ve forgotten something, or missed something, or lost something forever.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex-warren","confusion","emptiness","feeling","hana-tate","hollow","lena-haloway","lost"],"id":186100,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}