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“In quiet moments I can easily believe my spirit's so toxic, so noxious, that it repels people like the stench of rot. Better to keep to myself. Easier to push folks away than to watch them learn to hate you.”

Book:The Dreaming (2018) #6

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“Sever all ties. The words in his mouth like ash. It was not the coldness of the words that horrified him, their utter opposition to anything human, but rather his own affinity for them, the way he was drawn to this vision of solitude with a feeling almost of nostalgia. He had the kind of loneliness that battles everything, that makes a person strange forever.”

Loneliness Solitude Belonging

Book:The Winged Histories

Source: The Winged Histories

“I wish for someone to be with. I wish to be un-alone.” He hoped shooting stars did not care about grammar.”

Wish Loneliness Shooting Star Wishing Star

Book:One Christmas Wish

Source: One Christmas Wish

“this is the last house in summer and now is the double loneliness of missing a party you don't even want to be at.”

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Source: By the Numbers

“She was no better than the shells by her feet, tumbling this way and that at the beck and call of the waves.”

Lost Loneliness Waves Wandering Wanderer

Book:Taking Root

Source: Taking Root

“A woman's got one life: She's got to reach out and grab it with both hands, or it'll pass her by and leave nothing but a smelly old fart in her face.”

Romance Women Fiction History Scandalous Lovers

Book:Scandalous Lovers

Source: Scandalous Lovers

“After all, if we stop to think, the stars have been fleeing from us from the very beginning. Every night they're further away, though they give the impression of being in the same place. But we shouldn't feel lonely as a result. No. Not at all. As long as there's a fire there will be a story waiting to be told. And then we'll open our mouths wide and swallow all that we can of the night. And, for the first time, the same song will begin.”

Stories Universe Stars Loneliness Storytelling Story

Book:Bellas artes

Source: Bellas artes

“On a long enough timeline, every story ends. Lives always fail. Love always fades. And every secret learned is one less thing to dream about.”

Love Life Dreams Loneliness Sandman

Book:The Dreaming (2018) #8

Source: The Dreaming (2018) #8

“Worse and worse...Can't you stand it? Are you retreating? Is this hour with the living too dead for you?”

Loneliness

Book:Leaves of Grass

Source: Leaves of Grass

“You are never so a stranger as when you become a stranger.”

Loneliness Estrangement

Author:Luigina Sgarro

“Loneliness, I began to realise, was a populated place. A city in itself. And when one inhabits a city, even a city as rigorously and logically constructed as Manhattan, one starts by getting lost.”

Lost Cities Loneliness City Begining

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

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

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