Quotes About Disconnection

In his failure Nhu had withdrawn so far into himself that in the end his face was a mask that no longer opened onto the real world.

But one never has it easy with that son of mine, one has one devil of a time." Mom was conversing and setting spoons and forks on either side of the Sevres plates "because since he was a youngster he was always, still is, elsewhere, home was hell to him, he just came in to sleep, morning to night he'd be out on Polni Street, the entire town knew him, because he was forever at somebody else's, always wanting to be somewhere other than where he was.

Maura calling her?" I shrug.

A world she despised, could not comprehend, nor defend herself against. a world that did not want her

I am a stranger at a cocktail party.

Jean Louise had lost touch with nearly everyone she grew up with and did not wish particularly to rediscover the companions of her adolescence. Her schooldays were her most miserable days, she was unsentimental to the point of callousness about the women's college she had attended, nothing displeased her more than to be set in the middle of a group of people who played Remember Old So-and-So.

Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go someplace where you don't know a soul? Sometimes I feel like doing that. I really really want to do it sometimes.

For me, it was a lonely season. Whenever I got home and took off my clothes, I felt as if any second my bones would burst through my skin. Like some unknown force inside me had taken a wrong turn somewhere, and was leading me off in some strange direction to another world

The further we traveled in the darkness, the more I began to feel estranged from my body. I couldn't see it, and after a while, you start to think the body is nothing but a hypothetical construct.

People have lost track of me before.

It isn't a question of intelligence. I'm not all that bright, I just have my own way of thinking. That's why people get disgusted with me. They accuse me of always bringing up things that are better left alone. If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you.

Dee Dee?" Mildred's voice could sharpen pencils. "Where are you?

Either way, modernity is doing something to us at a deeply fundamental level, and the fact that we don't understand it is alarming.

All the colorful lights had been turned off and the sky was the color of television static.

I've got to confess... I do feel slightly like I've been born in the wrong time.

I've tried repeatedly, but I just cannot sink my teeth into the WWE product.

I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who know me go, 'Oh yeah, Mailman, she's gone into her cave again.' I'm like that, a bit of a hibernating bear. Like that crocodile that just sits there in the water and doesn't do much. I was always a bit of a dreamer as a kid, so that hasn't changed.

The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?

I still dislike phones, yeah!

I've been texting for a year with a couple of guys without ever going on a date with them.

My divorce came to me as a complete surprise. That's what happens when you haven't been home in eighteen years.

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.