“I d never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I d grown used to it.”
“-Herkes geçer diyor.Geçer mi olric? Herkes ne bilir acımı.Herkes ne bilsin acımızı.Yaşar gibi yapmaktan,özlemez gibi yapmaktan iyiymiş gibi yapmaktan..Nefes alıp onu içimde tutmaktan o nefeste boğulmaktan sıkıldım.Ki nefessizlikten değil nefesten boğulmaktır marifetimiz Olric. -Evet efendimiz -Bana katıldığını bilmek güzel.Arada ses vermen güzel.İçimin sesi de olmasa ölürüm yalnızlıktan...”
“For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren’t you at all.”
“To feel alone is to be alone.”
“The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.”
“Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.”
“Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn t know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I d ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”
“After all, it s one thing to run away when someone s chasing you. It s entirely another to be running all alone.”
“I wasn t safe. I wasn t permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn t there. There was nobody home.”
“I have been a stranger here in my own land: All my life”
“You don t have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.”
“We all do have our own reasons for being alone; in my case, I just don’t like wasting my time on some assholes.”
“We ve got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.”
“You ve got to hide your love away. You can t just hide your feelings. You have to destroy them. Kill them before they kill you.”
“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”
“as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.”
“The people you think are the happiest are usually the saddest; that s because they see more and feel deeper than others do. They are the sensitive and they see beyond the veil of what s tangible and what s not. They wear no masks and can see through the masks of others. The sensitive to life are few in number, which is why they feel so alone...because they are all alone.”