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Maybe this was why people filled their house with stinking cats, so they didn't notice that they were alone, so they wouldn't die without a living soul noticing.

Case Histories

Keegan had never realized how absolute silence could be in the minutes before dawn. Maybe because the expectation of battle filled the air, not even birds sang.

Coexist

Every moment is brand new, but we often fill the new with fear of the future or pain of the past instead of simply enjoying the present.

The Essentials of Life

Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?

The Exiled Queen

...freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night...

A Familiar Rain

...in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights - and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses...lie abandoned by you...

A Familiar Rain

All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it.

Fishing the Sloe-Black River

Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net.

Glory

A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.

Dr. Haggard's Disease

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart. ~William Wordsworth Being an author is like being in charge of your own personal insane asylum. ~Graycie Harmon

Heart of Glass

I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.

The Book of Disquiet

...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.

Black Swan Green

A blanket could be used to fill the night sky with smoke, if you use it to suffocate the fire. And if you mess it up, I’ll use my hands to suffocate you.  

Blanket

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water

Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses and Language

The only way to prevent pride from taking root in our heart and our life is to embrace a life filled with faith, understanding, and forgiveness.

Breaking Pride

That the world should be filled with such detail, such tiny points of human frailty, threatened to crush her and she had to look away.

The Children Act

Even at an early age, I rebelled against my strict upbringing. When I was 9, I built myself a 'make-out fort' in our backyard from wood, filled it with candy, and invited my blond, blue-eyed neighbor over to kiss.

Azita Ghanizada

Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.

Jared Sparks

For women of a certain age, how do you meet a guy, fall in love, and decide he's the right man to have children with? Your clock's ticking, you're looking at him, and it's a crazy, pressure-filled experience.

Marcia Cross

Up until the age of 12, I went to dog shows every weekend. Mum showed beagles. It's a really competitive and eclectic world filled with characters who wear interesting outfits - similar to 'Toddlers & Tiaras,' but with dogs.

Rebel Wilson

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

Jonathan Sacks