“ When left alone with her, I ignored her and kept my eyes on my book, though I confess I turned over more pages than I read. Mary Street
“ 5.57am and I’m finishing the last poem to the taste of the last cigarette. Smoke in my lungs, poetry on the paper. Inhale, exhale, it doesn’t get much easier. Charlotte Eriksson
“ I know what you might think; that being alone is a sign of loneliness. But the way I see it, sometimes being alone serves as a period of insight as to who you really are. Think about it. Lauren Lola
“ Living things don't all requirelight in the same degree. Some of usmake our own light: a silver leaflike a path no one can use, a shallowlake of silver in the darkness under the great maples.But you k… Louise Glück
“ He stares at me—taking me in—with his lips slightly parted. I struggle to hold myself in place as we gawk at each other. I want so desperately to run, but something is holding me back, keeping me… Ashley Earley
“ As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movem… F. Scott Fitzgerald
“ I’m tired of pretending, tired of acting like everything’s okay, tired of not being with him… Terra Elan McVoy
“ Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other. Paolo Giordano
“ I turned my ear toward the door because I heard him breathing. When you’re alone and afraid, the simple sound of the steady in and out of air being drawn by another person is good medicine. Laura Anderson Kurk
“ The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on… Stephen King
“ I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They're just not around at the moment. Cynthia Hand
“ I mean, I haven't rushed to the answerphone once to see if anyone's aware of my existence in the world! Helen Fielding
“ It was as if I was in a picture, a flat canvas, and everything around me was flat, me painted on like everything else: no colour, nothing in front and nothing behind me, not even earlier today or tomo… Tim Relf
“ We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone. Orson Welles
“ I had nothing to contribute. I played no part. I was on the edge.Different.Alone.Everything around me, grey.It was the same old feeling, back again.I was in the middle of the group but I might as well… Tim Relf
