“[...][I]f you adapted too much in order to deal with them, you ran the risk of forgetting who you were and you could end up being neither and nothing.”
“Maybe this is who I really am. Not a loner, exactly. But someone who can be alone.”
“I had nothing to contribute. I played no part. I was on the edge. Different. Alone. Everything around me, grey. It was the same old feeling, back again. I was in the middle of the group but I might as well have been a million miles away from these people.”
“The moment when you realize no one understands, no one ever did, no one ever will. You were alone, you always will be. But may be, just may be, someone will look up to you someday. And when they do, remember to hide those tearful eyes, to smile and to say - look, life s so good.”
“He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts.”
“it is horrible being all alone.”
“Never keep yourself alone. Keep talking to yourself. And you ll start feeling better.”
“My shadow is tired walking with me; but I have yet to be bored walking with myself, all by myself...”
“The group of people in front of her was jovial and paid her no attention. The group behind was much the same. She was alone without being alone.”
“To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.”
“—Alone, quite alone. You have no fear of that. And you know what that word means? Not only to be separate from all others but to have not even one friend. —I will take the risk, said Stephen. —And not to have any one person, Cranly said, who would be more than a friend, more even than the noblest and truest friend a man ever had.”
“All I knew now was that nothing lasted forever, not even a friendship, and that being different felt the same as being alone.”
“I felt my eyes widen slightly, feeling like the kid of the group who didn’t understand anything and was a pain to have around.”
“Time has no sense but it makes all the sense”
“There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you!”
“When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context - the ones they took for granted.”
“I felt a lot better; not being alone in being alone.”