“Clavo saca clavo.
Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.”

— Junot Díaz , book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

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Dominican-American writer 1968

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

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“Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him.

Nothing, he would reply. Nothing but growing my pain into madness.”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

“Nothing ever goes as you expect. Expect nothing, and you will not be surprised. Expect nothing. Hope for nothing. Nothing.”

Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer

Lews Therin Telamon
(15 October 1994)

“Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.”

Jean Paul Sartre The Flies

King Aegistheus, Act 2
The Flies (1943)

“When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.”

Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer

Vol. I; CLXXXIII
Lacon

“When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.”

Charles Caleb Colton (1777–1832) British priest and writer

Vol. I; CLXXXIII
Lacon (1820)

“She's like smoke:you think you're seeing her clearly enough, but when you reach for her there's nothing there”

Ryū Murakami book Audition

Source: Audition (1997), Chapter Eight, Kai
Context: The young people nowadays – men and women, amateurs and pros – generally fall into one of two categories: either they don’t know what it is that’s most important to them, or they know but don’t have the power to go after it. But this girl’s different. She knows what’s most important to her and she knows how to get it, but she doesn’t let on what it is. I’m pretty sure it’s not money, or success, or a normal happy life, or a strong man, or some weird religion, but that’s about all I can tell you. She’s like smoke:you think you’re seeing her clearly enough, but when you reach for her there’s nothing there. That’s a sort of strength, I suppose. But it makes her hard to figure out.