I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty…

Jonathan Safran Foer
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I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone. ✨ Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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