Chloe

“How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“But remember: what belongs to the sea will always return to the sea.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“Suddenly, I'm behind the bakery and I can feel the chill of the rain running down my back, the hollowness in my belly. I sound eleven years old when I speak. "But only because some helped me.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“The woman glanced toward Emanuel as he sat. She smiled faintly. Her look of general disinterest made his heart sing. He turned his hat forward and felt his Blackness ease back to a still very serious 7.6.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black