Acquaintance Quote by Deanna Raybourn

That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there.

— Anonymous

I had unknown person in my life, I met her when she was alone and she left me alone.

— Van Simon

I let her alone and when she got that finished she left me alone. We trusted each other.

— Virgil Thomson

For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign…

— Haruki Murakami

“feeling strangely disconnected from the girl I used to be yet so glad to have found her again.”

— Penelope Douglas

Throughout it all, I loved her as much as I always had, and I found myself aching for those simpler times of the past.…

— Nicholas Sparks

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I…

— Anne Bronte

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been,…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity…

— Alain de Botton

Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I…

— Nicole Krauss