“She always camouflaged herself as a crowd. I've never been lonely, she said, but sometimes it's hard to think above the noise.”
“It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.”
“But being a stay-at-home mom was the loneliest kind of lonely, in which she was always and never by herself.”
“All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been lonely at camp with hundreds of fellows around. But now I'm not lonely any more.”
“She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.”
“All this is just a place, she said. And sometimes such a lonely one.”