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Quotes About Solitude

The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself. No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
No one will ever love me that much again.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Why are you so quiet?" he asks. Because, you want to say, I am a person with an interior world that you know nothing about.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
To be alive was to accept that your were fundamentally alone.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Zweisamkeit' is the feeling of being alone even when you're with other people." Simon turned to
~ Gabrielle Zevin
We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Zweisamkeit' is the feeling of being alone even when you're with other people.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
An echo makes good company, Old Margaret said. Whenever I'm lonely, I always try to find one to talk to. They're much better than mirrors. Mirrors say nasty things about you. Echoes are far more supportive. They think whatever you say is completely brilliant.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She liked going to bed early and waking up early. She liked working. She liked that she was good at her work, and she felt proud of the fact that she was well paid for it. She felt pleasure in orderly things—a perfectly efficient section of code, a closet where every item was in its place. She liked solitude and the thoughts of her own interesting and creative mind. She liked to be comfortable.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
To be alive was to accept that you were fundamentally alone.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What I think you should consider," Alabaster said, "is the rarity of finding a playmate in either this world or the other world.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It was only when he was alone and he couldn't participate in the business of living that he tended to notice how lovely being alive was.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The world had always looked painfully beautiful to him when he was sick. It was only when he was alone and he couldn't participate in the business of living that he tended to notice how lovely being alive was.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Zweisamkeit" é a sensação de estar sozinho mesmo quando se está com outras pessoas. [...] Senti isso tantas vezes que pensei que isso era parte da vida. Que estar vivo era aceitar que estamos todos essencialmente sozinhos.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Zweisamkeit' is the feeling of being alone even when you're with other people." Simon turned to look in his husband's eyes. "Before I met you, I felt this constantly. I felt it with my family, my friends, and every boyfriend I ever had. I felt it so often that I thought this was the nature of living. To be alive was to accept that you were fundamentally alone.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books
~ Gabrielle Zevin
We read to know were not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Macbeth has just heard the news that his wife had died, and he is giving the most famous soliloquy from the play, the "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" speech.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Sadie was not a natural mother, though this was not a confession one was allowed to make. She craved solitude and personal space too much. But she loved this girl nonetheless.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Amelia the bright-sider believes it is better to be alone than to be with someone who doesn't share your sensibilities and interests.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
~ Gabrielle Zevin