“But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.”
“I have always known there is a difference between loneliness and aloneness. I am alone, but my father is lonely. And if I had to choose one, I would rather be alone.”
“I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be”
“It turned out I had always been a smoker. I just hadn't had any cigarettes.”
“I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)”
“I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.”