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Quotes About Isolation

It would be so easy, Ismay thinks. You walk out. You swim for a while. You swim too far. You don't try to swim back. Your lungs fill up. It hurts for a bit, but then it's over. Nothing ever hurts again, and your conscience is clear. You don't leave a mess. Maybe your body washes up some day. Maybe it doesn't.
~ 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
No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World Inside
~ 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
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
No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us, the passage goes, but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us, but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable.
~ 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
isolates us," the passage goes, "but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable. Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down a road. And someday, you do not know when, he, or indeed she, will be there. You will be loved because for the first time in your life, you will truly not be alone. You will have chosen to not be alone.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Skaitome tam, kad nesijaustume vieniši. Skaitome d?l to, kad esame vieniši. Skaitome ir nesijau?iame vieniši. Mes nesame vieniši.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Leemos para saber que no estamos solos. Leemos porque estamos solos. Leemos y no estamos solos. No estamos solos.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The trick could sometimes be her phone, her (and everyone else's) fortress of solitude, and a practiced absorption in it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Skaitome tam, kad nesijaustume vieniši. Skaitome d?l to, kad esame vieniši. Skaitome ir nesijau?iame vieniši.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
knows why she was here or who she came to see or why she decided to kill herself by swimming into the icy waters of the Alice Island Sound in December. That is to say, no one knows the specific reason. They know that Marian Wallace is black, that she is twenty-two years old, and that she had a twenty-five-month-old toddler.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The other interns have left, and your eyes are beginning to spill over. The hell with it, you think. No one's here. It's better that you cry before you drive. Miami's confusing to navigate at night, and they haven't invented Google Maps yet.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us," the passage goes, "but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable. Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down a road. And someday, you do not know when, he, or indeed she, will be there. You will be loved because for the first time in your life, you will truly not be alone. You will have chosen to not be alone." None
~ Gabrielle Zevin
You will be standing in that square forever. You will wear that "A" until you're dead. You consider your options. You have no options.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
É o medo secreto de que não é possível sermos amados o que nos isola (...) mas é apenas porque estamos isolados que pensamos não sermos amáveis. E certo dia, não se sabe quando, ele, ou ela, aliás, estará lá. Será amado porque, pela primeira vez na vida, realmente não estará solitário. Terá escolhido não estar solitário.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Because if you really want to die, I can put you under psychiatric observation." "I don't want to die," A.J. says after a bit. "I just find it difficult to be here all the time. Do you think I'm crazy?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
A.J. runs their credit cards and concludes that a theft is an acceptable social loss while a death is an isolating one.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
She asks A.J. about his lifestyle. He answers the question truthfully. "I'm not what you'd call an alcoholic, but I do like to drink until I pass out at least once a week. I smoke occasionally and I subsist on a diet of frozen entrees. I rarely floss. I used to be a long-distance runner, but now I don't exercise at all. I live alone and I lack meaningful personal relationships. Since my wife died, I hate my work, too.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
college friends. "It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us," the passage goes, "but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It is the secret fear that we are unloveable that isolates us, but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unloveable.
~ Gabrielle Zevin