“Nathaniel always says h’s mature for his age, which is one of those things worried parents say about their children when their children baffle them, but I think what he’s mature in is his loneliness. A child can be alone. But he shouldn’t be lonely. And our child is.”
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“As a rule of thumb, it was always safer if the Commander-in-Chief formulated a risky plan.”
“Being very strange kept people away. And if people stayed away, you could never disappoint them.”
“Do you know what it is to be lonely? Truly alone, even amidst a crowd? Even in a family?”
“She was lonely and she never knew that this loneliness had made her sour and cross towards others.”
“He would choose being alone over being lonely in a crowd.”