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“People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.”

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“I knew how to be alone, had studied the manner deeply, knew all the shadings of aloneness, and even spent considerable time alone within each of my relationships, but I was afraid to be alone.”

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“Misery was a creeping thing, like the dew settling on grass or the cold fingers of frost meeting me in my bed at night and crackling the insides of my windows. I had longed to be left alone, to escape the lie of my family, only to discover this was different kind of poison. Slow acting, but lethal. At first it numbed me, pleasure leaching from my days like a summer leaf draining of sap to greet the autumn. Then loneliness came, a creeping oily stain that stopped me from enjoying it at all.”

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“. . . solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is the state of being alone without being lonely, of being happily self-sufficient.”

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“As she talked she was working at a patchwork counterpane. The diamond-shaped pieces of silk melted one into the other, red, blue, purple, green, yellow, all one shimmering color. Hours and hours she had spent on it and it was nearly finished. Would I be lonely? she asked and I said 'No', looking at the colors. Hours and hours and hours I thought.”

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“The lightwires slung past in shallow convections pole to pole and the loneliness rode in his stomach like an egg.”

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“My mother was tidied away into her grave and my stepmother unpacked her things into her place. I found myself far from home without having travelled a metre.”

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“There were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up.”

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“- Det är inte konstigt att känna sig ensam ibland i en värld med nästan åtta miljarder människor. Vissa av oss mer än andra. Det är skönt att ha någon som man kan känna sig ensam tillsammans med.”

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“My whole life I’d felt lonely. Not in the way that made me depressed with the need for attention from others, but in a way that told me I was meant to be away from them.”

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