Lonely People

“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because

 they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. 

They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.” 

~ David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: 

Essays and Arguments

People Die

“People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. 

It continues and is ever-changing.” 

~ Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

I Have No Right

“I have no right to say or do anything that 

diminishes a man in his own eyes. 

What matters is not what I think of him but 

what he thinks of himself. 

Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.” 

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A True Gentleman

“A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, 

even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. 

He is in a class all of his own because he 

knows the value of a woman's heart.” 

~ Shannon Alder

And Then the Line

“And then the line was quite but not dead.

 I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, 

but in a way it was better, 

like I was not in my room and he was not in his, 

but instead we were together in some invisible 

and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.” 

~ John Green, The Fault in Our Stars