Quotes About Isolation

A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.

I really believe Nick will come after me. I turn toward the house and see only a closed door.

I guess I've been depressed for about twenty-four years.

I felt no particular allegiance to the town. This was the place my sister died, the place I started cutting myself. A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.

I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.

Uma cidade tão sufocante e pequena que todos os dias você esbarrava em pessoas que odiava. Pessoas que sabiam coisas sobre você. É o tipo de lugar que deixa marcas.

That's what he learned from his life so far: always aim smaller. He was born to be lonely, that's what he knew for certain

It was miserable, wet-bone March and I was lying in bed thinking about killing myself, a hobby of mine. Indulgent afternoon daydreaming: A shotgun, my mouth, a bang and my head jerking once, twice, blood on the wall. Splatter, splatter.

Ser hija única conlleva una responsabilidad injusta; te educas en la certeza de que en realidad no tienes permitido causar desengaños, ni siquiera tienes permitido morir. No tienes sustitutas que puedan reemplazarte gateando por la casa; eres todo lo que hay. Eso te conduce a desesperarte por ser perfecta y también te vuelve ebria de poder. Así se crean los déspotas.

It seemed to me that she'd been expelled into this world not quite formed.

My penis lay pathetically along my left thigh, like some small animal washed ashore.

I know I'm a hateful creature.

Me apuntaré a uno de esos cruceros de pasarse el día bebiendo —uno que me lleve hasta alta mar pero no requiera identificación—, me beberé un vaso gigante de ginebra con hielo, me tragaré unos somníferos y cuando nadie esté mirando me dejaré caer en silencio por la borda con los bolsillos llenos de piedras a lo Virginia Woolf.

Carl just needed to hear the clink of glasses, the glug of a drink being poured. I picked up the phone, shaking a tumbler of ice near the receiver so Carl could imagine his gin.

He dejado de sentirme real. Siento como si pudiera desaparecer.

I worry I am coming perilously close to violating both of those promises. But still. It is our third wedding anniversary and I am alone in our apartment, my face all mask-tight from tears because, well, because: Just this afternoon, I get a voice mail from Nick, and I already know it's going to be bad, I know

It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I'm not a real person and neither is anyone else. I would have done anything to feel real again.

Não me sinto uma pessoa: sou algo a ser carregado e descarregado, como um sofá ou um cuco.

They'd learn from Mom to be particularly cruel to the ugly girls, the poor girls, girls who just wanted to be left alone. Too much to ask.

We just want you to be happy...but they never explained how...I remember always being baffled by other children. I would be at a birthday party and watch the other kids giggling and making faces, and I would try to do that too, but I wouldn't understand why.

I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.

You guys not closed?' she asked. 'We are the definition of not close.

An angry stepson and a husband who was always away, no wonder she let her mind go to dark places.

I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.