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“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.”
“If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?”
“But the most dangerous thing that camp had taught me was the awful lesson of country living: out there, in the open, in the quiet, all the emptiness pressed itself up against you, pawed at the very...”
“There were times when the light of the moon had gone out and she felt a great loneliness. It wasn't for herself. It was for what had happened to the grasses of their land, their waters, not just th...”
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
“... and for the first time he realized the pain inevitable in any human relationship - pain suffered and pain inflicted. How foolish we were to be afraid of loneliness.”
“Wolves mated for life. Where was he? Where was the echo to her howl, her mate? Was there no other lone wolf, searching the hills for her?”
“Everyones searching for someone to end the pain of loneliness. Even the darkest of souls wants a shot at redemption.”
“Loneliness gave me things that no one did. It gave me pain, It gave me strength to gather myself and stand again. It gave me strength to wait for you.”
“An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together without conversation, when the phone's passed wordlessly to t...”
“I remembered my mother's speech at my wedding. "In sickness and in sickness. That is what I wish for you. Don't seek or expect miracles. There are no miracles. Not anymore. And there are no cures f...”
“Like any / unloved thing, I dont know if Im real /when Im not being touched.”
“Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all.”
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
“Lying is easy. But it's lonely.""What do you mean?""When you lie to everyone about everything, what's left? What's true?""Nothing," I say."Exactly.”
“Maybe everbody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
“People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this worlds worst kind of pain.”
“I don't reckon misery loves any damn thing at all.”
