I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.
“It is impossible to capture the essence of love in writing, only its symptoms remain, the erotic absorption, the huge disparity between the times together and the times apart, the sense of being ex...”
“That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.”
“The words ran away with me.”
“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyon...”
“Thats love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.”
“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”
“For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty.Now I am pretty lonely.”
“I missed him so much that it felt like a physical pain in the area below my ribs. I opened my mouth to accommodate it. I put my hand to it. A hollow, aching, piercing place.”
“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”