“Linda seemed to recognize loneliness. Possibly she could see it sitting opposite her, sipping lager and trying not to lose its temper. It was an illness, loneliness--it made you weak, gullible, feebleminded.”
“I'm scared of losing this web we're in. This elusive, indefinable, opposite of loneliness.”
“The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy”
“She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.”
“In the infinite loneliness ofspace, what could Laika possibly be looking at?”
“What could be lonelier than trying to communicate?”