“Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?”

— Trenton Lee Stewart , The Mysterious Benedict Society

Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?" by Trenton Lee Stewart?

Trenton Lee Stewart 27

Novelist 1970

Related quotes

“At first, she could not talk. Perhaps it was the sudden bumpiness of love she felt for him. Or had she always loved him?”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“I had always wondered what it felt like to die.”

Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire

Gates of Fire (1998)

“Marriage is rarely bliss
But, surely it would be worse
As particles to pelt
At thousands of miles per sec
About a universe
In which a lover's kiss
Would either not be felt
Or break the loved one's neck.”

W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet

After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics (1961), lines 9–16

“It gets worse and worse. I love it, but I have no life. People grab me and kiss me. I like that, but it can be overwhelming.”

Tarkan (1972) Turkish singer

Pop Music's Young Turk, Washington Post, November 18, 2001, https://archive.is/v9Jw, 2012-12-09 http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A41014-2001Nov16&notFound=true,