“They chose death over me. They chose to trust those who never should have been trusted. They chose what was right instead of what was good and safe. They could have stayed with me. All of them. And they left.”
Source: A Vision in Smoke
“Because she was so afraid, he could see that now. What he did not know was whether she was more afraid of being alone or being embraced, of being abandoned or being loved.”
Source: A Vision in Smoke
“No one should have to carry that many memories alone.”
Source: A Vision in Smoke
“It was like someone in a suit walked up to me and gave me a certificate, which stated “Roxanne Giselle Logan, Your Life is Fucked”.”
Source: Rock Chick Redemption
“How many times will she watch someone leave this place and never look back, while she is left here like a ghost to haunt it?”
Source: A Far Wilder Magic
“I was lonely and I was angry, and rage and loneliness can end up tasting the same.”
Source: Medusa: The Girl Behind the Myth
“It’s hard to search for someone like yourself when you’re not even sure who you are.”
Source: A Million Quiet Revolutions
“Suddenly, my nose began to sting and tears rolled around my eyes. It wasn't completely clear to me then, but I suppose I was tasting the sorrow of the ostracized, the bitter loneliness that goes with alienation.”
Source: Our Twisted Hero
“It made me feel important, like I was participating in the world. My trash mixed with the trash of others. The things I touched touched things other people has touched. I was contributing. I was connecting.”
Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“The only man alive to see it, though, was a wealthy recluse and neurotic, so beset by the embarrassments of society that he had withdrawn from it entirely. For him, every conversation, every transaction, down to the briefest and most businesslike, had become yet another occasion for injury. Those countless social encounters, with their countless tiny cuts--cuts inflicted, cuts received, and the one just as painful to remember as the other. Those smiles preceded by telltale pauses. Those favors both sexual and financial. Those what-do-you-thinks and let-me-borrow-you-for-a-seconds. It had all been too much for him, too freighted with need and misunderstanding....”
Source: The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories