"I am grateful that he knows, unlike other men in my life, that I want to be stopped from leaving. Even though I am always ready for a fight, so stubborn that I will shoot myself in the foot, my pride will make me go away to nowhere in particular just to make a statement - to say that I'm strong, independent. In another language, these words would mean something else, convey what I truly am: a loner, lonesome, and irreversibly heartbroken."
- Kim Sunee, "Trail of Crumbs"
"When I get lonely these days I think, so be lonely Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life, welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings."
-Elizabeth Gilbert, "Eat Pray Love"
"It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."
- Rainer Maria Rilke, "Letters to a Young Poet"
"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."
-Wayne Dyer
"Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual."
-Haruki Murakami
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