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“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”

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Book:Camino Real

Source: Camino Real

“She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and read only romance novels. Because, by God, when a woman picked up one of those steamy books, she had a firm guarantee that there would be a Happily-Ever-After. That though the world outside those covers could bring such sorrow and disappointment and loneliness, between those covers, the world was a splendid place to be.”

“And so he did his endless work,' I continued quietly, 'without feeling, without pity, without rest, for to open his heart to these would be to open his heart to his loneliness and longing and that was beyond bearing.”

Heart Feelings Would Be Loneliness Longing Endless Pity

Book:Keturah and Lord Death

Source: Keturah and Lord Death

“Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon. Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.”

Ifs Thinking Play Helping Would Be Kids Night Loneliness College Poet Walking Sitting Rain All Night Pointless Up All Night Bourbon Sitting Up

Book:A fine and private place: The last unicorn

Source: A fine and private place: The last unicorn

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

People Years Enough Would Be Romance Time Opportunity Loneliness Seven Determine Intimacy Openness Sensibility Disposition Seven Years Insufficient Seven Days Marianne Dashwood

Author:Jane Austen

“There was no time for kissing but she wanted him to know that in the future there would be. A kiss in so much loneliness was like a hand pulling you up out of the water, scooping you up from a place of drowning and into the reckless abundance of air. A kiss, another kiss.”

Knows Hands Would Be Wanted Water Air Loneliness Kissing Abundance Pulling Drowning Reckless

Author:Ann Patchett

“She didnʹt know if she could carry on by herself, but then, she realized that if this wasnʹt a dream—and dear God, did it feel real—there was no magic ʺstopʺ in real life. If she couldnʹt deal with loneliness in a dream, she never would be able to while waking.”

Ifs Knows Feels Real Dream Would Be Able Deals Magic Loneliness Dear Real Life Waking Dear God

Author:Richelle Mead

“Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to check that it isn’t broken. Sometimes she thinks how nice it would be to be woken by a call in the night: ‘get in a taxi now’ or ‘I need to see you, we need to talk’. But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel – independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.”

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Book:One Day

Source: One Day

“Loneliness is holding the one you love When you know you might never hold him again. Even lost in the darkness My heart will find you The soul die at the hand of the one who carries it. If I could find a place to run away Hidden safely, I would be there today. The darkest daylight finds me.”

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Author:Kami Garcia

“Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, I would not waste it in forced, unnatural distance. I loved him well - too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. A cordial word from his lips, or a gentle look from his eyes, would do me good, for all the span of life that remained to me; it would be comfort in the last strait of loneliness; I would take it - I would taste the elixir, and pride should not spill the cup.”

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Book:Villette

Source: Villette

“But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.”

Ifs Thinking Men World Persons Would Be Felt Loneliness Unique Mouths Lonely Good Times Corpses

Book:Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

Source: Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie

“It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.”

People Ifs World Humans Mean Would Be Today Human Beings Wonderful Loneliness Connected World Today

Author:Elisabeth Shue

“Eva is a story of repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly picks himself back up again. It is a story of the will to move forward, even if only a little. It is a story of the resolve to want to be together, even though it is frightening to have contact with others and endure ambiguous loneliness. I would be most gratified if you found enjoyment in these four parts as it takes the same story and metamorphoses it into something different.”

“I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there... I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.”

Men Made Hard Would Be Fighting Black Mistake Loneliness Acceptance Respect Abuse

Author:Jackie Robinson