“You’ve ruined me,” she repeats, her voice quieting a little as it catches. “You’ve ruined me—you made me wake up. And now I can’t get rid of you.” Her voice surges again as I reach out, curling my hand around her arm, her skin flushed hot under my fingers. “You won’t leave me alone.”
Source: This Shattered World
“This year taught me that my loneliness has more to do with myself than anyone else. The loneliest I will ever be is when I do not have the strength to love myself.”
“Hold me, Gerty, hold me, or I shall think of things.”
Source: The House of Mirth
“To a torn heart uncomforted by human nearness a room may open almost human arms, and the being to whom no four walls mean more than any others, is, at such hours, expatriate everywhere.”
Source: The House of Mirth
“Her arms went around herself, but no matter how tightly she pressed, it came nowhere near a hug.”
Source: A Thousand Beginnings and Endings
“ঐ নিয়ন্তা হাতটির ইশারায়
বসেছি তখন সে-তটে
মৎস্য-শিকারে রত, পশ্চাতে বিরান তেপান্তর
আমার জমি কি নেব না গুছিয়ে আমি অন্ততঃ?
লন্ডন ব্রিজ ভেঙে প’ড়ে যায় ভেঙে প’ড়ে যায় ভেঙে প’ড়ে যায়
সে সেই অনলে লুকাল তাদের পুড়ে যা করবে শুদ্ধ অতঃপর
কবহুঁ ভইব দোয়েল-সমান—দোয়েল দোয়েল বোনটি
ভাঙা কেলায় আকিতেইনের রাজার কুমার কাঁদে
প্রলয় আমার ঠেকিয়েছি এই খোলামকুচির বাঁধে
তথাস্তু, হবে ব্যবস্থা তব। খেপেছে হিয়েরোনিমো পুনরায়।
দত্ত। দয়ধ্বম্। দাম্যত।
শান্তিঃ শান্তিঃ শান্তিঃ”
Source: The Masterpieces of World Literature: 150 Books You Should Read Before You Die: Romeo and Juliet, Emma, Vanity Fair, Middlemarch, Tom Sawyer, Faust, Notre Dame de Paris, Dubliners, Odyssey
“He sits amongst the crowd, entirely alone.”
Source: Truly, Madly, Deeply
“Lost is a lovely place to find yourself in.”
“he will have no one near him but Nature herself; and her he takes to wife in the wilderness of waters, and the best of wives she is, though she keeps so many moody secrets.”
“And I am forty-nine and getting old and soon it will be too late for all the things I know nothing of but which torment me in the middle of the night and here now in this place which is supposed to be a comfort and a solace. I am lonely and hungry and I have never breathed a word of this to anyone. Nobody knows or cares. I don't want anyone to know or care.”
Source: Passing On