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“In the silence between cultures, I found my voice—not as one or the other, but as both and neither, a bridge between worlds.”

Book:The Invisible Third Culture Adult

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“Alcohol was my best friend because it never wanted to talk about itself. It was just always there, the mute dog at my heel, gazing up at me, always ready to go on a walk. It took away so much of the pain, including the fact that when I was alone, I was lonely, and that when I was with people, I was lonely, too.”

Loneliness Addiction Alcohol Memoir

Book:Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

Source: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“Feelings like love and loneliness are universal—they cut across all categories, they include everyone.”

Love Loneliness Universal Inclusion

Book:Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection

Source: Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection

“Love—in the expansive way I now conceive of the term, based on my research and my experience—is the opposite of loneliness.”

Love Loneliness

Book:Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection

Source: Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection

“I can't take anything you don't give me. Stop giving me power over your life.”

Romance College New Adult Contempory

Book:Deeper We Fall

Source: Deeper We Fall

“Is this my life? I’m glad that I can write I’m thankful for this life And all the good it’s given me But can I live like this forever? Alone Can I really be alone like this? Forever? I can’t take it — actually that’s not true, that’s a lie I’m fine on my own It’s fine, but what about you Am I really okay Not knowing you? What if I regret it? My child, unlike any other, Can I really say I’m okay Never knowing you?”

Children Loneliness Motherhood

Book:Breasts and Eggs

Source: Breasts and Eggs

“We all cover up our truth, even when we’re dying inside, but we do. But it keeps loneliness alive, don’t you think?”

Loneliness

Book:Wildflower

Source: Wildflower

“...you're at a place in your life where you're trying to let people in, so you should have called someone to spend the afternoon with you instead of being a weirdo alone in a theater crying at a comedy. Oh man, I bet you were eating a burrito too, you sick fuck.”

Comedy Loneliness

Book:Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

Source: Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

“You have done this because you are afraid to be alone...because you have been alone for so many years. Death has taken them all. Even now, you're afraid...afraid you may lose the only friend you have in the world. But fear is something only mortals indulge in...”

Death Loneliness Regret Immortality

Author:Sarah M Naidoo

“Rose had read somewhere that loneliness hurt more than a broken arm. There wasn't a cast or a pill or surgery that could heal it. Although she'd never thought about it before, she knew what they said was true. And even though there was a cure, everyone walked around like there was no medicine for it.”

Loneliness Lonely Loneliness Quotes Loneliness Of Life

Book:To Fill a Jar With Water

Source: To Fill a Jar With Water

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