“Burn all your bridges. Who cares? You’re all lying to each other. You all hate each other more than you love each other.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.”— George R.R. Martin, amazon.com
“We’ve all experienced the frustration of our 20s going nothing as planned, so why do we still feel like we’re the only ones who are struggling? This lie that we’re all alone in our struggle is a powerful magnifier of depression, anxiety, and confusion in our 20s. It’s vital we blow this ugly lie up.…”— Paul Angone, amazon.com
“I wanted you to fight for me. And tell me that you would rather be alone than with anyone else!”— Brooke Davis, amazon.com
“I grew up believing that I could do it all by myself. I had to stand up for myself to the school bullies, unlike some of my friends, whose older siblings stood up for them. There was no ‘co’ anyone in my life in regard to my relationship with my parents. If I got into trouble for getting home late f…”— Chandrayee Chatterjee, thoughtcatalog.com
“Singleness is just a state of being, like what color shirt you are wearing, or what hair style you are currently sporting. It isn’t inherently good or bad, it is totally value neutral!”— Jacob Geers, thoughtcatalog.com
“Even back in high school, when my other friends would have some significant other to hold hands with on their way to AP European History, I was holding hands with my textbooks or a giant bag of cookies I smuggled out of the cafeteria.”— Jacob Geers, thoughtcatalog.com
“I freighted a leaf with a mental message for the friends at home, and dropped it in the stream. But I put no stamp on it and it was held for postage somewhere.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Every new place you visit, person you encounter, new aromas you smell or things you see will make your brain unchain. It is then when your thinking will spark in new creative directions. Use this to make great things for yourself (or for others) happen. Have a project, write a blog, take cooking les…”— Laura Beltrán Villamizar, laurabelvilla.com
“It's another exciting Friday night, and I'm curled up in bed — alone, of course — propped up by a sea of pillows, still in my lab coat, the sash so taut it's suffocating the purple silk dress beneath it, but I don't care.”— Terry McMillan, amazon.com
“You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone.”— Jean Rhys, amazon.com
“Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.”— Nora Roberts, amazon.com
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com