“Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.”
“It was as if I was in a picture, a flat canvas, and everything around me was flat, me painted on like everything else: no colour, nothing in front and nothing behind me, not even earlier today or tomorrow, nothing to look back or forward to, just this moment.”
“To the turtle, the concept of loneliness is incomprehensible. She always has been alone, and any other social state is unthinkable.”
“darkness falls upon Humanity and faces become terrible things that wanted more than there was. all our days are marked with unexpected affronts - some disastrous, others less so but the process is wearing and continuous. attrition rules. most give way leaving empty spaces where people should be. and now as we ready to self-destruct there is very little left to kill which makes the tragedy less and more much much more.”
“when you re young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting alone in the closet can fire your bones; when you re old it s just a pair of shoes without anybody in them and just as well.”
“sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone are the dead rattling the walls that close us in.”
“Sometimes I feel so alone in the world. A tiny speck of nothing in a sea of emptiness.”
“I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can to just be still.”
“I tell myself I’m fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left to my own devices, I have no devices.”
“Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go.”
“...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.”
“Never assume you are alone, because you never truly are. Only when your life has surely ended and your loved ones have forgotten you is when you are gone. Gone from this world and the next. Sleep is when you are most vulnerable. It’s a sanctuary and a curse; how you perceive it is up to you.”
“Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another alone”
“Only lost photographs that were never taken know what my mind speaks of when we are alone together.”
“The truth hurts, only when it can heal.”
“Your path might be a lonely one... but, you are NOT alone!”
“And then the days came when I was alone.”