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“Do not be sad that all odds are against you; be happy that your real purpose is by you”

Book:The Arduous Errand: a voyage across the ocean

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“Among the many fox magics her sobo had delighted in describing, the one that had most captured her imagination was the power to alter form. The most eldritch among foxes could turn (or so her grandmother would claim in that musical croak that was her storytelling voice) into human beings. The they would creep into the lives of lonely and impressionable souls and offer them long-sought affection.”

Stories Loneliness Foxes Metamorphosis

Book:The Trees

Source: The Trees

“It's all right. I'm not upset. After all, they were just things. When you've lost your mother and your father, you can't care so much about things, can you?”

Loss Loneliness Solitude Priorities Parents Materialism Possessions Orphans

Book:When We Were Orphans

Source: When We Were Orphans

“She felt just like that girl in that book with the letter A on her chest. Only her A signified Alone. She was an outcast, cast out by her own choices, an outsider with a pretty face. Like a rose, she may have been beautiful to look at, but almost everyone only knew the thorny side.”

Loneliness Alone Outcast Scarlet Letter

Book:Their Friend Scarlet

Source: Their Friend Scarlet

“I felt like I was in danger of vanishing, though at the same time the feelings I had were so raw and overwhelming that I often wished I could find a way of losing myself altogether, perhaps for a few months, until the intensity diminished.”

Loneliness

Book:The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

Source: The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

“The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The house feels so much bigger and colder than it ever has.”

Loss Grief Loneliness

Book:Saving June

Source: Saving June

“You have to remember that I've been lonely for a long time. Loneliness is like ice. After you've been lonely long enough you don't realize you're cold, but you are... I don't know, maybe at the center of me there's some ice that never will melt, maybe it's just been there too long. But you mustn't worry. You didn't put it there.”

Loneliness

Book:The Last Picture Show

Source: The Last Picture Show

“There was something odd for him about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lonely caused him to fear the possibility of becoming lonely again.”

Loneliness Lonely

Book:Tony Takitani

Source: Tony Takitani

“Today isn’t my epilogue with Neil—it’s a beginning. I’ll leave the happily-ever-afters in the books.”

Romance Ya Happily Ever After

Book:Today Tonight Tomorrow

Source: Today Tonight Tomorrow

“I didn’t have the vaguest idea of what to do – I couldn’t keep staring at the wall forever, I told myself. But even that admonition didn’t work. A faculty advisor reviewing a graduation thesis would have had the perfect comment: you write well, you argue clearly, but you don’t have anything to say.”

Loneliness

Book:Pinball, 1973

Source: Pinball, 1973

“Squiffy, have you ever felt a sort of strange emptiness in the heart? A sort of aching void of the soul?' 'Oh, rather!' 'What do you do about it?' 'I generally take a couple of cocktails.”

Humor Comedy Loneliness Sorrow Depression Alcohol Emptiness Desolation Alcohol Addiction

Book:Doctor Sally

Source: Doctor Sally

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