“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You are walking to work. There is a dog drowning in the canal on the side of the street. Your boss told you if you are late one more time you're fired. Do you save the dog?”— Ally the Bruce, allysrandomage.blogspot.com
“they leaned into everything: cigarettes and stories, nips of whiskey, / laughter like blackbirds rising across a white sky.”— Joe Wilkins, amazon.com
“I thought, briefly, that I would never feel as intensely connected to the world, to another human being, as I did at that moment.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”— John Green, Alaska Young, amazon.com
“But the pleasure isn't owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.”— Philip Roth, amazon.com
“Although letters seem to facilitate communication and proximity, they produce instead a distance in which writers find the chance to become writers.”— Vincent Kaufmann, amazon.com
“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com