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“You get lonely, is what it is. A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It's not normal. The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the lon...”
“And she realized everything one does is just another effort to be understood by someone a little bit more.”
“It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.”
“This was the part she hated, the part of a relationship that always nudged her to bail, the part where someone elses misery or expectations or neediness crept into her carefully prescribed world. I...”
“We are not defined by our individual loneliness, but by the web of relationships in which were enmeshed.”
“I'm not much but I'm all I have.”
“Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in y...”
“If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better.”
“Missing someone is the reverberating echo of everything beautiful about herher laugh, her song, her touch, her smell, the power of her words, and the constant shadow that lingers on as her perfect ...”
“Friendless is most loneliness in the world”
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”
“...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life...”
“It could be kindness. Faith felt hollow at the thought. She had needed kindness before, and has received none. Now it was too late, and she did not know what to do with it.”
“...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...It was untrue, of course.”
“She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those word...”
“I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers -...”
“...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.”
“I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely bec...”
“That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house.Took three months before I even looked out the window, see...”
“The rain echoed in the shadowy attic space and made me feel small and fragile, like a lace glove left behind on moving day - mateless and abandoned.”
