“I think the way I feel when I look at Evan comes from her. In pictures taken the day she married my dad, she was reckless, laughing, spinning around in circles. She looked like her whole world was him. She looked a kind of happy I can't even imagine. I don't want that. I don't want to be like that. I don' want to feel the way she did because I know what happens when you do. You love with your whole heart, with everything, and you wake up one morning and kiss someone good-bye the way you always do except you mean it as good-bye forever.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 208 of 309
“I deserved the shaking and the headaches and the fact that every single time I took a breath I felt a squeezing in my chest, my heart beating even though I wished it wasn't.”
“I didn’t want to see it. I didn’t think he’d ever really notice me, and in the end, he didn’t.”
“Just once, I wanted to lose something without the whole world watching.”
“What had been became what was and a story only works when you know the ending. When the people in it don’t seem like pretend. When you can think about that girl and how she was once upon a time, and see her. When you don’t already know the story is a lie.”
“I didn't feel anything watching him go. I didn't even wish I did.”
“..."Are you okay?" he says, still looking at me, and I feel my smile slip, fade, and the silence that falls over us then is so total I can’t hear anything, not the rush-hiss of my heart pounding in my chest, not the sounds all around us; insects, wind, and the distant clatter of others’ lives in houses built close but not too close because when we look out our windows we all like to pretend that everything we see is ours. But Ryan is not mine.”
“She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.”
“Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you.”
“No, we can't be friends. You're my mom. You're what i talk to my friends about.”
“Do you feel insecure because you keep getting the nagging feeling that you're not that smart? Well, I've got good news for you, my friend. You have no need to be insecure. That nagging feeling is absolutely right on target. You are not that smart. But I have more good news for you. You are also not alone.”
“While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I thought people wanted me to be. I'd say yes when I wanted to say no, and I even wore a few dresses.”
“I think the hard thing about this job [stand-up] I mean, I think this part is great but that the traveling is y'know, 'cause 'cause I'm gone a lot from home and this time I'm out for three-and-a-half weeks without going home, and that's hard, to be gone three-and-a-half weeks 'cause then I have to ask my friends, "Would you mind going to the house and watering the plants, and turn some lights on and make it look like somebody's home, and make sure that the mobile over the crib isn't tangled or the baby's gonna get bored.”
“I want people to like me - but not at my expense. I just learned that there are too many people who are going to have an opinion about me whether I am kind to them or not. I can't control what they're feeling. I am not a yeller and I don't have a temper, but I do want people to do their best. And if someone is a friend and I see that they're doing stuff that is not helping them grow, I will make it a point to talk to them about it.”
“Did you ever feel like the whole world was going to a party and your invitation got lost in the mail?”
“The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.”
“Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.”
“I would prefer not to throw myself on a funeral pyre. Please come back to me.”
“Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel.”
“I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.”