aloria

“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

“And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.”
― L.M. Montgomery

“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

“Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun