Why am I so anxious? And then it hits me. I'm not anxious, I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be so lonely because it seems catastrophic - seeing the car just as it hits you.
To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say that I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to."
He hadn't yet had enough experience with humans to know that the thing they hold dearest to their hearts, the last thing they relinquish when all else is fading, is the consoling belief in the inferiority of others.
"He had taken almost everything. But he had been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved ones, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting to try and make him stay."
People can call it passion, or lust, or obsession. I don’t really care. When I’m with him it’s the only time I feel completely alive. If you’ve never felt the power of that then I feel sorry for you.
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And then it hits me.
I'm not anxious, I'm lonely.
And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant,
I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs.
And it scares the shit out of me to be so lonely because it seems catastrophic -
seeing the car just as it hits you.
-Augusten Burroughs
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-"The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein
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- Gregory Maguire, A Lion Among Men
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- Sarah Dessen, Dreamland
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I don’t really care.
When I’m with him it’s the only time I feel completely alive.
If you’ve never felt the power of that then I feel sorry for you.
-The A-List by Zoey Dean
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