“To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.”
“There's more to me than you see, another me down inside somewhere, full of hate, ready to hurt, cut, smash, or if maybe there's no Other and there's just me alone, then I'm not the person I thought I was, I'm something twisted and terrible, terrible.”
“Now he could say for sure that he'd never known a feeling stronger than that of being at one with another person - that rare feeling of not being alone anymore.”
“False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.”
“Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.”
“I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were”