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“Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?”
― Wittgenstein’s Mistress
― Wittgenstein’s Mistress
“She'd been in love with the man, and love is a scary thing. If not reciprocated, it can turn a person into a monster.”
― The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors
― The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors
“I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone.”
― Eve
― Eve
“I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood on the sidewalk, a nothing, a gatherer of dust. People hurried past me. and everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them.”
― The History of Love
― The History of Love
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