“Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up; and whether it would be worse to love someone who was no longer there, or not to love someone who was.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 272 of 309
“I wonder if I shall ever see her again, and I realize that I scarcely care. I can feel the sheets beneath me, and the cold air on my chest. I feel fine. I feel absolutely fine. I feel nothing at all.”
“It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black.”
“He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed.”
“He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.”
“None of this is truly happening," he said to Shadow. He sounded miserable. "It's all in your head. Best not to think of it.”
“I'm just going to stay here, in the darkness under the arch. I can hear you all out there, trip-trapping, trip-trapping over my bridge. Oh yes, I can hear you. But I'm not coming out.”
“There were people you could hug, and then there was Silas.”
“And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.”
“I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.”
“He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.”
“I think there are several aspects of our marraige we're going to have to work on." "Babes," he told her. "You're dead." "That's one of those aspects, obviously.”
“If I come back, it will be a place, but it won't be a home any longer.”
“Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things.”
“They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.”
“I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel”
“I'm never quite sure if I'm me when I'm dressed up.”
“Now Coraline," said Miss Spink, "what's your name?" "Coraline," said Coraline. "And we don't know each other, do we?" Coraline looked at the thin young woman with black button eyes and shook her head slowly.”
“Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.”
“I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.”