"It's like having your guts ripped out - it's my livelihood and I feel completely empty and lost, " she said.
That winter, I packed a suitcase and took an empty, overheated Greyhound bus to the state mental hospital, where I trudged through blinding drifts of cold and was shown to a room in a staff dormitory.
One night I dreamed of an angel: I walked into a huge, empty bar and saw him sitting in a corner with his elbows on the table and a cup of milky coffee in front of him.
"When I went outside to get some food and medicine I noticed that the streets are almost empty, " an activist named Lena said from the Mazzeh neighborhood on the west side of the city.
The main shopping street was virtually empty, and I was able to walk around without the usual shoulder-bumping.
This new setup program immediately saw that I had an empty and idle 240GB drive (already formatted as NTFS using Windows 7's stock disc management utility) and allowed me to install Windows 8 there.
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Setting off with empty stomachs, my boyfriend and I asked the front desk at our hotel for directions, but the clerk raised her eyebrows in alarm.
Arguments over the economy and the impact of tomorrow's budget on Wales were rehearsed today - because tomorrow, the chamber will be empty - or should I say under half full, or is that over half empty?. Labour and Plaid Cymru AMs (including the Presiding Officer, though not, apparently, including Dafydd Elis Thomas) are staying away.
At one point, while standing on the people mover, I looked left at two empty gate areas and then right at two more empty gate areas.
This was also to be the shop that, when Michael Jackson was in town, would be closed down for him to browse in private, and I remember glimpsing him wandering through the empty aisles of a ghost-like megastore.
This was my life, these were the times when I was true: in these half hours here and there when I felt alone in the house, or those fleeting moments out on the road, when I opened a gate and crossed an empty farmyard, a stranger, even to myself, in the quiet of the afternoon.
At 1pm almost all the sun loungers are empty and, feeling like a seaside squatter, I nab one in the front row.
Some polling stations I visited in rural Mberengwa and Shurugwi were empty by 1400 local time (1200 GMT), with just 2-300 people having cast their ballots.
But what I can tell you is that there are plenty of people involved in the political process who are willing to make phony promises about what they can do to address rising gas prices -- that if -- and I can tell you that they're empty promises.
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But neither Susan nor Lynn seemed right for a Quaker girl converting to Catholicism, as I had been in the process of doing with Father James, wishing to fill the long empty hours with something commensurate with my desire and because I loved him and believed he would like me better with a name like Mary.
"I think that empty chair beside Alex Maskey shows how isolated and divisive a figure he is, " he said.
Without so much as tapping the brakes, I decelerated and made a U-turn on the empty street, going straight back to the hotel.
"He will empty the dishwasher and not say anything to me, and I will get him back and take out the garbage, " she says.
Once I put empty space in my day, a slew of ideas and insights began to emerge.
Silently and meaningfully she opened her empty pack of cigarettes, which I quickly filled with my Marlboros.
When Kris and I bought furniture for my Man Room (which had remained empty for the first five years we lived in this house), we bought nice stuff.
My worst nightmare would be to show up at an address, having paid for the four days of lodging, and see an empty warehouse instead of the chic London flat I was supposedly renting.
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Often, when the grocery store is empty and all you can hear is the buzzing of flies, I think of that young man whose name we never knew and whom no one in town ever mentioned again.
It is 2am here, and I can still hear them going off, but the streets are empty where I am.
"I wanted to play with the concept of limits: an empty glass and the text that always appears at the end of the movies: THE END".
Elated by even a sad, empty outpost of civilization, I stopped at the creepy little market with unstocked shelves and a dentally deficient man at the register.
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Was I going to stay on my current path and invest more time and energy into a profession that left me empty, or was I going to pursue a dream that made me whole?
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