“You may have noticed that people in bus stations, if they know you also are alone, will glance at you sidelong, with a look that is both piercing and intimate, and if you let them sit beside you, they will tell you long lies about numerous children who are all gone now, and mothers who were beautiful and cruel, and in every case they will tell you that they were abandoned, disappointed, or betrayed--that they should not be alone, that only remarkable events, of the kind one reads in a book, could have made their condition so extreme. And that is why, even if the things they say are true, they have the quick eyes and active hands and the passion for meticulous elaboration of people who know they are lying. Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever been otherwise. Loneliness is absolute discovery.”
“We come into this world alone. You’re going to die alone. That’s the way it is. I think a really great interpretation of love is: feeling alone with someone else. The times in my life, if you want to qualify as “being in love”, when you feel almost like being alone with company.”
“I ve come to learn that being alone is better than being next to someone and feeling alone.”
“Year Zillion “What is your contribution to society?” “I mind my own business and I always know when to shut the fuck up.” **Gets Nobel Prize** If two people are happy together, just leave them alone.”
“The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints.”
“Although it s great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold like death”
“I think the hardest part of being a teenage, or any age really, is the misconception that you re alone. You re not alone. You re not the only one going through what you re going through, and life does get better if you want it to.”
“What happiness to sit in intimate conversation with someone of like mind, warmed by candid discussion of the amusing and fleeting ways of this world ... but such a friend is hard to find, and instead you sit there doing your best to fit in with whatever the other is saying, feeling deeply alone.”
“My own rule is to let everything alone.”
“Comprobó con asombro que era un enorme alivio estar sola.”
“Afraid to die loveless. Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that s how you ll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen. Do you think hell is fiery? I don t. I think hell is frozen.”
“I am the most pious person in the room. Even though I have no pie - I have pizza, and what can be more virtuous than eating all by yourself?”
“I’ve never been nearly as alone as I always say I am”
“My fear of standing alone often pressures me to stand with a rather unsavory group that embraces a rather unsettling belief system which leaves me wondering why I left the promises of God for the company of people.”
“A brave man could conquer fear, he had learned that, but perhaps only for a time. It was something the young did not understand, the way it could gnaw at a man, the way it came back stronger every time, until you were alone and gasping for breath.”
“ Derek? I called. No answer. I took a few more steps, then called a little louder, Derek? Are you out here? A branch snapped in the woods. I pictured Derek, in the middle of a Change, unable to respond, and hurried toward the forest s edge. The noise stopped and I paused at the end of the path leading in, peering into the dark woods, listening. Another snap. Something like a groan. Derek? It s me. I stepped in. It took only a few paces for the morning light to fade and darkness to envelop me. Derek? I jumped as he rounded a corner down the path. I didn t need full daylight to see the expression on his face at all to know I was in trouble, just the set of his shoulders and he long strides as he bore down on me. I— I began. What the hell are you doing, Chloe? I said we d come out here later and try to contact that ghost. Key word? We. If you re here— I lifted my hands. Okay, you caught me. I was sneaking out on my own, hoping no one would notice. That s why I ve been calling your name. ”
“Walling herself off circumvented the risk of real closeness between two people and the eventual, unavoidable loss that always accompanies love. Liberating herself from the concern of others served a sinister purpose as well. There were fewer people to whom Anna was accountable. It’s the easiest way to lie and not get caught: make yourself matter to no one”