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1 " Remove all of the distractions, and here, in the silence and the solitude, the demons they have kept at bay catch up with them. "
― Lucy Foley ,
2 " Some people, given just the right amount of pressure, taken out of their usual, comfortable environments, don’t need much encouragement at all to become monsters. And sometimes you just get a strong sense about people, and you can’t explain it; you simply know it, in some deeper part of yourself. "
3 " But it is a lot easier to face the day when you know you won't have to face other people and their happiness. "
4 " There are people who hold out for love, capital letters LOVE, and don’t stop until they’ve found it. There are those who give up because they don’t find it. "
5 " I suppose we all carry around different versions of ourselves "
6 " Sometimes solitude is the only way to regain your sanity. "
7 " It is a dark place form which you can never quite return. It does something to you, the first time. An essential change somewhere deep in the soul, the amputation of something important. The first time is the worst, but with each death the soul is wounded further. After a while there is nothing left but scar tissue. "
8 " Some people, given just the right amount of pressure, taken out of their usual, comfortable environments, don’t need much encouragement at all to become monsters. "
9 " Perhaps it's simply growing older. A sense that she doesn't have to prove herself any longer, that she knows exactly who she is. I envy that. "
10 " Sometimes these impulses overtake me -- the urge to push things a bit further... even the urge to wound. I can't stop myself, it's like a compulsion. "
11 " But here the cold has a chance to get you properly in its grip. "
12 " a friend she can be bad enough. The thought of having her as an enemy is frankly terrifying. "
13 " I suppose we all carry around different versions of ourselves. "
14 " Here is a person held together by tape and glue and prescription-strength sleeping pills – the only thing I can be persuaded to make a foray into civilisation for, these days. "
15 " There are people who hold out for love, capital letters LOVE, and don’t stop until they’ve found it. There are those who give up because they don’t find it. Boom or bust – all or nothing. And then, perhaps in the majority, there are those who settle. And I think we’re the sensible ones. Because love doesn’t always mean longevity "
16 " And being around people - people carrying on with their lives, busy and messy, settling down, having children, getting married - just emphasizes how much my own has stalled, indefinitely. Perhaps forever. "
17 " The scales, as they say, have fallen from my eyes. "
18 " But that’s the thing about old friends, isn’t it? Sometimes they don’t even realize that they no longer have anything in common. That maybe they don’t even like each other anymore. "
19 " Besides, there can’t be any real harm in not saying anything. Can there? "
20 " It’s tricky – as anyone who has been in this situation will know – to be the latest addition to a group of old friends. "