" ... he always carried the feeling that he was struggling toward some kind of resolution and knowledge of purpose. That there was something good in him or about him. It was the waiting that was so hard. The waiting often left a hollow feeling in his soul. And he believed people could see this, that they knew when they looked at him that he was empty. "

― Michael Connelly , The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)