“I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.”

“In order to this, I found it absolutely necessary to consider this Subject entirely anew, as if it had never been treated of before; the Principles of the old Perspective being so narrow, and so confined, that they could be of no use in my Design: And I was forced to invent new Terms of Art, those already in use being so peculiarly adapted to the imperfect Notions that have hitherto been had of this Art, that I could make no use of them in explaining those general Principles I intended to establish.”

“I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.”

“Love would never leave us alone”

“When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.”

“All the gang of those who rule us
Hope our quarrels never stop
Helping them to split and fool us
So they can remain on top.”

“I bought it for myself but never used it. I was tempted, but I never used it.”

“I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.”

“It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.”

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!”