“Being alone is blissful when you want to...It s terrible when you are forced to..!”
“She thought about this. She had analyzed it in depth. When you live alone, travel alone, exist solely on the outskirts of other people s lives, you do have time to wonder why what you want most in life is out of reach. You also have the time to tell yourself that you don t want it at all, though whether you can ever be completely convinced is something else.”
“I find my solitude between people when they were many and I was alone.”
“Being a lone wolf is sometimes better than being in a pack.”
“The cold is lonely person s way of feeling alone and death”
“When you are alone you can easily judge yourself.”
“She s going to keep up her public facade of stoicism and generosity and getting on with thungs. She knows she can do it, she can do the stiff upper lip thing. I will survive. But behind closed doors the going is rough. It s when she is alone that it hits her. And she is often alone, too often, she things no one should have to be alone as much as she is. It should have been me: her mind is a morass of old songs now, Errol Brown started it. It should have been me.”
“aloneness is a bad fiddle I play against my own / burning”
“I cannot love, I want to be alone I will not love, I want to be alone”
“But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to...”
“There s not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else s arms.”
“I pulled out my phone and thought about calling someone, but who was there to call? And what would I even say? It was just the kind of unpleasant surprise you had to share with someone, but I didn’t have anybody to share it with.”
“As much as he liked the idea of having best friends with whom he could share anything. it was like all he knew how to be was alone, apart.”
“Left alone, no matter at what age or under what circumstance, you have to remake your life.”
“Spend some time alone every day.”
“If you feel all damp and lonely like a mushroom, find the thick, creamy soup of joyfulness and just dive into it in order to make life tastier”
“ I don t know. I spent most of my life moving around. My dad and I had just settled in one place when all this happened. I... She shrugged. I guess I m hoping it doesn t last much longer. I want a home. She glanced over her shoulder. I know you do, too, even if you don t like to admit it. I thought she was talking to me. Then Derek stepped into the doorway. He wasn t eavesdropping, she said to me. He just doesn t like me being alone with strangers in the house. She aimed a pointed look his way. Even if I end up rescuing him from danger as often as he rescues me. ”