“C era una volta un uomo invisibile, che s era stufato di non essere visto da nessuno. Non che fosse davvero invisibile. Il fatto era che la gente era abituato a non vederlo. E se nessuno ti vede, esisti davvero?”
“Everyone just outgrew me. Now I think I m just haunting them.”
“Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435”
“I think most people are afraid to love because they want the freedom to suffer alone.”
“A week goes by and I don t call Lucy or Dylan. I want to drift away from them - more than anything, I want to drift away. I sometimes imagine myself totally alone and I enjoy the feeling. And I mean something by alone, something more than the word holds. I mean something blank and pure and vacant, plus me. And also moral. This blank and pure vacancy that includes me that is also moral is so empty, it is so no one, that my presence in it makes me not exist, although I am still there, and that s what lifts all the weight.”
“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.”