“It won't matter if nobody ever thinks I'm pretty (although sometimes I wish, just for a second, that somebody would)”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 274 of 309
“I'm not ugly but I'm not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren't green or brown, but a muddle. I'm not thin but I'm not fat either. the only thing you could definitely say about me is that: I'm short”
“i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable.”
“No guy in his right mind would ever choose me when there are people like Hana in the world: It would be like settling for a stale cookie when what you really want is a big bowl of ice cream, whipped cream and cherries and chocolate sprinkles included.”
“And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone.”
“I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.”
“I’ve always hated being looked at.”
“The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.”
“And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.”
“We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.”
“The worst is knowing I can't tell anybody what's happening -or what's happened- to me. Not even my mom.”
“He's stuck with me and I'm stuck with him. We're stuck. That's what growing up is all about, I guess.”
“I just want to be normal, like everybody else." "Are you sure that being like everybody else will make you happy?”
“Sometimes I feel like she deserves a best friend who is just a little more special.”
“And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets; their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us.”
“like I am Alice in the Wonderland and have gotten too big for the room.”
“I’ve been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him”
“People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.”
“I have a fall-back fund for the quiet months. I am a single working parent and it gets lonely when things are insecure.”
“Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]”