loneliness

I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.

Brianna peered through the large window into the sea of plexiglass cradles. Each infant, so small and precious, belonged to someone. Someone who cared for them. Someone who loved them. Brianna sniffled and turned away, unable to bear the thought that she had no one.

...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.

Sometimes the silence is the loudest thing in the room.

Real relief from loneliness requires the cooperation of at least one other person, and yet the more chronic our loneliness becomes, the less equipped we may be to entice such cooperation.

Madoka: Won't anyone notice that Mami-san is dead?Homura: Mami Tomoe's only relatives are distant relations. It will be quite some time before anyone files a missing persons report. When one dies on that side of the wards, not even a body is left behind. She'll wind up forever a "missing person"... That is what happens to magical girls in the end.Madoka: ...That's too cruel! Mami-san has been fighting all alone for a long time for everyone's sake! For no one to even notice that she's gone... That's just too lonely a fate...Homura: It is just that kind of contract that gives us the power in the first place. It isn't for anyone else's sake. We fight on for the sake of our own prayer. So for no one to notice... for the world to forget us... That is just something we have to accept.

I can't shove the dark out of my way.

Loneliness isn__ a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.

If you like, you can all think of it as my gift to you. I never had much else to give. You can get on and play your own lives as you like, while I just keep moving. This story of it all can be another gift. I__e made an arrangement with Adam. When I__e finished, which is almost now, I__ going to put the bundle of papers in the garden of the Old Fort, before I move on. Adam__ going to get them and take them to his father. And if you read it and don__ believe it__ real, so much the better. It will make another safeguard against Them.But you wouldn__ believe how lonely you get.

I__ alone, stumbling through the city in the dark, trying not to let the night freeze my blood.

Barbaric is letting the woman suffer to be alone for the rest of her life.

You are the architect of your own loneliness.

I am not alone, in my aloneness.

Her world fragmented into dozens of sharp, cutting shards, shedding the salty blood and saltier tears that ringed the bitter cocktail of her despair. She was caterpillar and butterfly, both, caught in a cocoon of raw nerves and open sores; she was insanity, wrapped up in the thin, transient wrappings of a temporary lucidity; and she was afraid, because an innate desire lay in the bottom reaches of her psyche for the very poison that was killing her.

I've never had any summer lovin'. And I've never had any school year lovin', either. I've never had a boyfriend. I've never hooked up with a guy. And this morning, on my Internet browser, an article popped up about women marrying themselves. Even my wireless connection knows I'm alone.

You don__ know what it means to be betrayed! Should I explain it to you? It means to be treated like trash and your feelings get stepped on_you get hurt over and over again and in the end you are left alone!Can__ you see how much I care for you? How hard I__ trying to connect with you?When did I ever betray you? When did I ever leave you alone?

I am jealous of anyone who can make other people care so much.

I've seen the way you've been looking at me. Don't bullshit me, Pat. I live in the addition around back, which is completely separate from the house, so there's no chance of my parents walking in on us. I hate the fact that you wore a football jersey to dinner, but you can fuck me as long as we turn the lights out first. Okay?