“Tertuliano Maximo Afonso started the engine, waited until she had gone into the building, and then, with a weary gesture, set the car in motion and drove home, where, patient and confident of its power, loneliness was waiting for him.”
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“We end up being strangers to those who have known us for too long.”
“I don't want to be alone, I said. I don't understand why I am here alone.”
“I was tired. I had been conscious for three hundred and seventy-nine years.”
“I knew something of what it was to be alone. Of how another's good fortune pricked like a goad.”
“Being made human without the possibility of BEING human; the cruelest of all punishments.”
“There is no law stronger than that of magic.”
“Alone - it was terrible to feel so much alone - to feel oneself different from other people.”
“I didn’t really like people to touch me.”