- "i'm sorry i wasn't wiser sooner. i'm sorry i ever spoke of myself as lonely." mary oliver, "someday" from red bird
- "since i always fail to communicate, to understand, to love and to be loved, and every failure deepens my solitude, since i cannot escape the objectivity crushing me nor the subjectivity expelling me, since i cannot rise to a state of being nor collapse into nothingness... i have to listen more than ever, i have to look around me, at the world, my fellow creature, my brother." 2 or 3 things i know about her, (1967)
- "you didn't want things to be right. you wanted to be alone. you wanted to be hurt. you think you have to be miserable alone, so everyone will know you're too noble to put your misery on them. but you want us to know you're miserable. your favorite thing in the world is to be too hurt for anyone to help." seth dickinson, the monster baru cormorant
- "to tell you the truth, i can't eat alone. neither sleep alone, nor take the bus alone, nor smoke alone. in fact, i can't do anything by myself. i only pretend." aloners, (2021)
- "could it be that i heard it more this way: time passes, but not so aggressively that anyone notices? or even: time passes, but not for me?" joan didion, blue nights (2011)
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