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“I don't think I can marry, I'm not fit for it, I'm not real enough. That's the trouble. I'm a puppet that's realised what's wrong with itself and it's horrible. I'm propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I'm propped up crying in a corner.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: alienation, iris-murdoch, left-out, metaphor, misery, outsider, sad, single, the-message-to-the-planet, unloved

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