“But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.”
“When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.”
“They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.”
“I would like to have your sureness. I am waiting for love, the core of a woman's life."Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you. It was only when I wrote my first book that the world I wanted to live in opened to me.”
“If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.”
“Alone, the world offers itself freely to us. To be unmasked, it has no choice.”