“When someone is force to realize that the road he'd been working hard to make progress on was no different from the place he'd started, and when he realized that he had in fact gone backward, all that person can do is face the pale sky and lament.”
― Book Girl and the Wayfarer's Lamentation (light novel)
― Book Girl and the Wayfarer's Lamentation (light novel)
“There must be different kinds of loneliness, or at least different degrees of loneliness, but the most terrifying loneliness is not experienced by everyone and can be understood by only a few. I compare the panic in this kind of loneliness to the dog we see running frantically down the road pursuing the family car. He is not really being left behind, for the family knows it is to return, but for that moment in his limited understanding, he is being left alone forever, and he has to run and run to survive. It is no wonder that we make terrible choices in our lives to avoid loneliness.”
― You Don't Look 35, Charlie Brown!
― You Don't Look 35, Charlie Brown!
“Everyone left and we have remained
on a path that goes on without us.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
on a path that goes on without us.”
― Madwomen: Poems of Gabriela Mistral
“She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better.”
― Back Roads
― Back Roads
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