Dictionary Quote by Audrey Niffenegger

“And even later, when for the first time in her life she had lain in bed with a man and said his name involuntarily…

— Toni Morrison

“Sensitivity to the sound of one's name is a special gift of loners. Because the loner does not often hear his name, he reacts…

— Wataru Watari

“When he replied with her name, it sounded like a new word — the syllables remained the same, the meaning was different.”

— Ian McEwan

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

— Ayn Rand

“By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been afraid to pronounce them.”

— Margaret Atwood

Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so…

— Nalini Singh

“In your loneliness, you hear the word from far away and then, in gratitude, look at it so closely that you cannot but drown…

— Edmond Jabès

“...and in the gloaming of her dwindling strength there yawned a loneliness so total it was beyond death, a loneliness that obliterated all memory,…

— Junot Díaz

“For the first time in her life, she realized that loneliness was not a lack of company but of meaning—a lack of any genuine…

— Lindsay Jayne Ashford

“She had forgotten how to transmute loneliness into mere aloneness, how not to fall into the hole of his absence.”

— Bar Fridman-Tell

“In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: Why is it that words like these seem to me so…

— James Joyce

“She lives in a shadow of a lonely girl Voice so quiet you a hear a word Always talking but she can't be heard...”

— Little Mix