“WhenIWasYourAge: We had to open all doors by ourselves. None of them knew we were coming.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 273 of 309
“Going to Comic-Con for me is always hard and weird, so it just makes me feel guilty. There's always a hundre thousand people out there who have copies of things that I've written and they really want signed and they're not going to get them signed.”
“Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.”
“I don't know why anybody would come to Ireland chasing a dream or even employment - that's an extraordinary thing for a place where traditionally one was unemployed. For 10 years, people were coming from all over the world looking for employment here, kind of an extraordinary phenomenon. That's stopped now.”
“You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.”
“For me, The Kite Runner became about a guy who’s emotionally shut down because he hasn’t confronted his past.”
“And indeed when we are no longer in love with women whom we meet after many years, is there not the abyss of death between them and ourselves, just as much as if they were no longer of this world, since the fact that we are no longer in love makes the people that they were or the person that we were then as good as dead?”
“We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.”
“There's always that one guy that you will always go back to. Even though you date other people in between, you are always in the back of your mind hoping to run into that guy.”
“I don't have the best dating track record.”
“As soon as you stop thinking about them, they'll send you a text message or call you. Because they know you stopped thinking about them. It's like a radar.”
“There's always that one person that you always go back to.”
“While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.”
“I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.”
“Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.”
“I was always torn between wanting whatever I pictured as a typical high school experience and that being just a part I wanted to play. I've written about this, but one of those typical high school experiences was drill team. Like, I just really wanted to wear a uniform and get on the bus and be part of this group. As an only child, the idea of blending in - and literally everyone being in sync and not standing out at all - felt like kind of a fun family thing.”
“No one had ever told her this basic fact: not everyone got to be loved.”
“For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here; I should never have asked him to cross.”
“That is what Alex is now: a shadow-boy”
“For a split second, he had looked almost like my Alex again.”