Quotes About Isolation
I didn't belong Because maybe I never wanted To belong. When everybody else danced and sang, I sat silently in my room with books, Books, and books. I used books for self-defense And as stealth bombers: I am better than you Because I have read more books than you; I am Beloved by these books; I am beloved by words.
~ Sherman Alexie
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Exoticism was hard to find in Pullman, Washington.
~ Sherman Alexie
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Mostly, I just think Mr. P is a lonely old man who used to be a lonely young man. And for some reason I don't understand, lonely white people love to hang around lonelier Indians.
~ Sherman Alexie
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Dear friends, I am often a lonely man, Even in a room full of people who love me. Dear friends, my brain-- Unpredictable as it was--is even more unpredictable now. But thank God for all of the ways in which we compensate. For our deficiencies.
~ Sherman Alexie
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All the anger in the world has come to my house. It's there in my closet. In my refrigerator. In the water. In the sheets. It's in my clothes. Can you smell it? I can never run away from it. It's in my hair. I can feel it between my teeth. Can you taste it? I hear it all the time. All the time the anger is talking to me. It's the devil. I'm the devil. If I could I'd crawl into a hole if I knew God was in there. Where's the hole?
~ Sherman Alexie
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Perhaps everybody, indigenous and not, lives on their own kind of reservation.
~ Sherman Alexie
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It's not like anybody's going to notice if you go away," he said. "So you might as well gut it out." Isn't
~ Sherman Alexie
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But he wasn't ugly, just misplaced and marked by loneliness.
~ Sherman Alexie
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If you weren't good for making food, shelter, or babies, then you were tossed out on your own.
~ Sherman Alexie
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Yep, now even the teachers were treating me like an idiot. I shrank back into my chair and remembered when I used to be a human being. I remember when people used to think I was smart. I remember when people used to think my brain was useful. Damaged by water, sure. And ready to seizure at any moment. But still useful, and maybe even a little bit beautiful and sacred and magical.
~ Sherman Alexie
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But mostly it feels sad, often hopeless, and hot with loneliness.
~ Sherman Alexie
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You're selfish and you're cold, and I'm tired of getting frostbite when I touch you. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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If you have any care for Sin at all, don't leave him in darkness. It's not fair to show someone the sun and then to banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone - Acheron (Devil May Cry)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Trust me, baby. Everyone wants someone they can hold and love. Someone who will be there to help pick up the pieces when everything falls apart. Sin is no different from anyone else. If you have any care for Sin at all, don't leave him in the darkness. It's not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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There is some pain that nothing heals [Zarek}
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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It's not fair to show someone the sun and then banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone. -Acheron
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. [Astrid]
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat) I write romance novels. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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You, psycho-ass, and Talon, I'll cover, but not him. (Nick) Psycho-ass? Hmm, I like that. (Zarek) Nick– (Acheron) It's all right, Greek. I would rather die than have his plebeian help anyway. (Valerius) Make that three votes, then. I would rather he died, too. Now all together, let's vote this asshole off the island. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I just want to be warm. Just once let me be warm. Is there no star capable of sharing its fire with me? (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Ever notice most people are major pains in the ass? I'd rather save myself the trouble of dealing with them and just avoid being around them to begin with. (Ravyn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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you're right Acheron. I am a selfish bastard. I had to be, because no one else gave a single shit about me except me
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Alone at last. Oh, the pleasure of the pain. (Zarek) You really do suffer from insanity, don't you? (Thanatos) Hardly. I have to say I enjoy every minute of it. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I'm here because I know the sadness inside you. I know what it feels like to wake in the morning, lost and lonely and aching for someone to be there with me. (Sebastian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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