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"Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities."
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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."
"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?"
"When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness."
"In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one."
"I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness."
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"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."
"Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."
"This is part of what a family is about, not just love, but letting others know there's someone who is watching out for them. It's what I missed so much when my mother died-what I call your 'spiritual security'-knowing that your family will be there watching out for you. Nothing else will give you that. Not money. Not fame."
"Now that child reminds me of something our sages taught. When a baby comes into the world, it's hands are clenched, right? Like this?"He made a fist."Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say 'The whole world is mine.'"But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned the lesson."What lesson? I asked.He stretched open his empty fingers."We can take nothing with us."
"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."
"She put one hand on mine. "When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times."
"They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you."
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