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“This past year I grew up to know hunger, grief, darkness, fear. I began to understand how lonely you can feel even when all…

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

“I never wanted to be alone, but I always opted for loneliness. I am an emotional, sensitive and expressive creature. I cannot detach my…

— M.F. Moonzajer

“I was not aware of being alone; I could not feel it. I needed those I loved, it did not occur to me that…

— Claire de Duras

“I cannot love, I want to be alone I will not love, I want to be alone”

— Laura Marling

“I was so afraid that I’d never be able to love anyone, and here I was, holding a child I desperately wanted to call…

— J.L. Berg

“I might have been afraid that if I really loved someone and needed her, one day she might suddenly disappear without a word, and…

— Haruki Murakami

“All my life I have longed to be alone in a place like this. Even when everything was going well, as it often did.…

— Per Petterson

“I realize that I only have words and that, from time to time, as I hold them in my arms I am less lonely.”

— Slavenka Drakulić

“It's making me so sad that you are unreachable. My desire for your touch, and your lips. It's breaking me inside. I'm so scared…

— Salomé Steinz

“Driven by my own childhood, I had to be sure you wanted for nothing. You were to feel so loved, safe, and secure that…

— D.G. Torrens

“We want not only to be loved, but to be loved alone.”

— Andrew Holleran

“She talked about wanting to be a part of something, wanting to be desired, to be 'special', craving to be loved. She talked about…

— Cupcake Brown