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"Because just for a few seconds, someone else hurts, too. For just a few seconds, I'm not alone."
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"Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her " a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone."

"We all do have our own reasons for being alone; in my case, I just don't like wasting my time on some assholes."

"How is it that we have over 6 billion people in the world and half of them feel alone?"

"If it's about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I'm sitting in."

"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."

"One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass friends."

"A box sits empty,wanting to hold and protect.Hollow tears it cries."

"Have you ever considered another type of loneliness; a good and healthy, happy loneliness?"

"One moment you see that you aren't so Original... people leave you... people start ignoring you... people start making excuses."
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"I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music-notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty."

"It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and 'The Taking of Christ' right the hell out of them."

"He's wearing boots, a kilt, and a long-sleeve tee. No coat, even though it's December. Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm."

"Because I'm on the phone, Mom!''Fooling around with your friends again! Who is that?''Ahmadinejad.''Oh, my goodness! What is he saying?''That he wants to see Jeezy at the Beacon tonight. Putin's going too. He scalped a ticket from Kim Jong Il. All tha gangstas are going.''Don't be so fresh, young man!''Gotta go,' he says to me. 'Enemy forces have dropped a Momshell.''Fall back, solider. Over and out."

"And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on jamming another one into her, a house to run, a garden to tend, three cows to milk, twenty chickens to feed, and four hired hands to cook for. I knew then why they didn't marry. Emily and Jane and Louisa. I knew and it scared me. I also knew what being lonely was and I didn't want to be lonely my whole life. I didn't want to give up on my words. I didn't want to choose one over the other. Mark Twain didn't have to. Charles Dickens didn't."

"Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you."

"I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people."

"Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?"
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