“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
“Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.”
“I would always be lonely, but no more alone.”
“If only my mother had a book to hold, she wouldn't have looked so lonely. And maybe this was another reason why people read: not so they would feel less lonely, but so that other people would think they looked less lonely with a book in their hands and therefore not pity them and leave them alone.”
“...Maybe this was another reason why people read: not so that they would feel less lonely, but so that other people would think they looked less lonely with a book in their hands and therefore not pity them and leave them alone.”
“So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.”