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And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not queasiness or fear that he would suddenly appear befor...more

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Alone.Yes,that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

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Bill Hodges is her touchstone, the way she measures her ability to interact with the world. Which is only another way of saying that he is the way she...more

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Driving a desk was sometimes lonely, but Eddie had been in the drivers'-seat himself more than once, his aspirator riding there with him on the dashbo...more

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If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The question had never even occurred to h...more

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He thought that fat boys were probably only allowed to love pretty girls inside. If he told anyone how he felt (not that he had anyone to tell), that ...more

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If someone had asked him, “Ben, are you lonely? , ” he would have looked at that someone with real surprise. The question had never even occurred to h...more

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The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and ...more

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She was smart and terribly determined, this girl-her will was pure steel, through and through-but she was as human as anyone else. She was lonely, too...more

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A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their ...more

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Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.

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He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he'...more

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The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the...more