Saturday, December 06, 2008

There are so many variations of alone.

"Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?"
--Chuck Palahniuk, 'Invisible Monsters'

Although it's such a singular word, there are so many variations of alone. There is the alone of an empty beach at twilight. There is the alone of an empty hotel room. There is the alone of being caught in a throng of people. There is the alone of missing a particular person. And there is the alone of being with a particular person and realizing you are still alone.

“We’re so fucked. We are. We’re screwed. We’re this generation of women who are just as lonely as any other, but we’re just unwilling to settle or compromise to get ourselves out of it. So we’re all just waiting for the fucking needle-in-a-haystack guy who we’re going to love, who’s going to happen to love us, who we’re going to meet just at the time when we’re both available and living in the same city. We’re totally fucked.”
--Liz Tuccillo, 'How To Be Single'

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