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“I love the library.
My own personal book church.
Safety.
But I'm losing patience with fiction.
The challenges and triumphs of
fictional characters only make me
feel worse about myself.
Novels end nicely and neatly
with all obstacles overcome.
Loose ends tied up.
My own story just keeps unraveling
with depressing predictability.”
― Alone
My own personal book church.
Safety.
But I'm losing patience with fiction.
The challenges and triumphs of
fictional characters only make me
feel worse about myself.
Novels end nicely and neatly
with all obstacles overcome.
Loose ends tied up.
My own story just keeps unraveling
with depressing predictability.”
― Alone
“maybe God
sends us nightmares so our living reality doesn’t seem so bad when we wake up
until we wake up
and remember
we are living in a nightmare we can’t escape
except by going
to sleep”
― Alone
sends us nightmares so our living reality doesn’t seem so bad when we wake up
until we wake up
and remember
we are living in a nightmare we can’t escape
except by going
to sleep”
― Alone
“There is something about poetry being nonfiction
but not factual.
The most intimate personal thoughts —things people would never dream
of saying out loud in middle school— right there on the page in black and white.”
― Alone
but not factual.
The most intimate personal thoughts —things people would never dream
of saying out loud in middle school— right there on the page in black and white.”
― Alone
“The challenges of fires and floods
can be overcome with courage and wit, but this feeling of loss and loneliness might just prove too great to endure even for this Challenge Girl.”
― Alone
can be overcome with courage and wit, but this feeling of loss and loneliness might just prove too great to endure even for this Challenge Girl.”
― Alone
“maybe God
sends us nightmares
so our living reality
doesn't seem so bad
when we wake up
-Maddie”
― Alone
sends us nightmares
so our living reality
doesn't seem so bad
when we wake up
-Maddie”
― Alone
“I know I won’t waste another day agonizing over
what I can’t control.
I am going to make sure
my one wild and precious life is spent living as fully and completely as I can
and if that means living alone with an aging rottweiler
and eating canned food
until I’m an old woman
so be it.”
― Alone
what I can’t control.
I am going to make sure
my one wild and precious life is spent living as fully and completely as I can
and if that means living alone with an aging rottweiler
and eating canned food
until I’m an old woman
so be it.”
― Alone
“Once again the library saves the day.
Provides everything I could
ever hope to learn...
(Back in civilization
when I grow up
I think I might want
to be a librarian.)
-Maddie”
― Alone
Provides everything I could
ever hope to learn...
(Back in civilization
when I grow up
I think I might want
to be a librarian.)
-Maddie”
― Alone
“A few month ago
I would have jumped at the offer
of an indefinite vacation.
Now I long for
the predictable regularity of classes.
The comfort of having a daily routine.
A place to be and people to notice
when I'm absent.
-Maddie”
― Alone
I would have jumped at the offer
of an indefinite vacation.
Now I long for
the predictable regularity of classes.
The comfort of having a daily routine.
A place to be and people to notice
when I'm absent.
-Maddie”
― Alone
“It’s not that I don’t grieve the loss
of my family or feel the acute emptiness of being so alone.
It’s just that my grief and loneliness
are no longer burdened by hope
that things will change.
I can’t control the future and
I’m powerless over everything except what’s happening right in front of me.”
― Alone
of my family or feel the acute emptiness of being so alone.
It’s just that my grief and loneliness
are no longer burdened by hope
that things will change.
I can’t control the future and
I’m powerless over everything except what’s happening right in front of me.”
― Alone
“warm breeze
snow melting
trees and rooftops drip
drip drip
open windows
fresh air
buds sprout on limbs
crocus crack through icy earth i can’t help but feel hopeful”
― Alone
snow melting
trees and rooftops drip
drip drip
open windows
fresh air
buds sprout on limbs
crocus crack through icy earth i can’t help but feel hopeful”
― Alone
“loneliness and insanity are twin houseguests and
it’s hard to entertain one without inviting the other in as well”
― Alone
it’s hard to entertain one without inviting the other in as well”
― Alone
“If a birthday falls in the forest
but there’s no one there to celebrate do we still get older?”
― Alone
but there’s no one there to celebrate do we still get older?”
― Alone
“It’s just that my grief and loneliness are no longer burdened by hope that things will change. I can’t control the future and I’m powerless over everything except what’s happening right in front of me. If rescue comes, it comes. If it doesn’t, it doesn’t.”
― Alone
― Alone
“The challenges of fires and floods can be overcome with courage and wit, but this feeling of loss and loneliness might just prove too great to endure”
― Alone
― Alone
“If Emily Dickinson’s hope is a thing with feathers then there are many flocks of hope flying overhead nesting noisily in the trees and hedges all around.”
― Alone
― Alone
“I find Emily Dickinson. The book falls open. “Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - Well, that’s true.”
― Alone
― Alone
“Sometimes the way my mom talks to me feels like a scratchy shirt tag on the back of my neck.”
― Alone
― Alone
