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"She'd sworn she wouldn't end up like her little brother, but loneliness didn't arrive with flashing bulbs and a warning label. The descent was as simple and complex as a faked smile, white lies about being 'okay, and the nod and acceptance as her own peers didn't delve deeper, shutting the coffin lid for her."
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"Loneliness will give you the greatest chance of ever having a beautiful relationship with another person."
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"Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there's something dead about it, something deserted."
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"One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass friends."
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"He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he was. His competitiveness and self-centeredness cut him off from any thought of shared life. He wanted to have more because he thought that having more would make him able to live more, and he was lonely because he never thought of the sources, the places, where he was going to get what he wanted to have, or of what his having it might cost others. It was loneliness that sometimes even he felt; you could see it. A self-praiser has got to accept a big loneliness in order to accept a little credit."
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"A box sits empty,wanting to hold and protect.Hollow tears it cries."
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"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
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"There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one, two is two thousand times one."
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"If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
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"Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them."
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"Loneliness is a shadow of death."
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"As the sky faded to night, her anger dissipated - but not in a healing way, just dulled, like forged iron sizzling in a cold pail of water."
Pain
"Took long enough, she called out, not wanting to admit how the sight of him made her throat hitch, how the man was so gorgeous she lost her mind. 'I thought you drowned in the mirror from staring into your reflection too long."
Attraction
"Flirt with the old ladies and you'll be fine, I muttered, shoving my stuff into the cubby. He hung his green hoodie on the hooks right beside me. 'Is that how you get by? 'Doesn't work on the old ladies for me, but the old men on the other hand? I paused and glanced at my nails. 'Yeah, doesn't work on them either."
Life
"My dad had always said to not trust something unless it's taken a tumble in the dirt. He'd meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn't exist for humankind any more."
Trust
"While the club - kid lifestyle might've once appealed to him, after he discovered even drugs wouldn't dull his sharpened reality, he went into each round cold."
Transformation
"Ice upon ice, and yet, inside, she melted and mourned all the same."
Life
"No monster would hold the hurt I see in your eyes or carry the guilt you do every day."
Compassion
"If you're supposed to work with someone, I'd recommend not getting all hot and bothered with them the night before. The word of the day was 'tense."
Work
"Ignore the reek of feces in the air, the bloodstains on the ground, and you have yourself a glorious night."
Violence
"The last thing I remembered was joining the crew in a rendition of 'Take to the Sky, but the rest of the time blurred after I drank absinthe with the Captain."
Farewell
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