“He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust.”

“A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.”

“There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?”

“We find what we are looking for in life, her father had once said to her, which was true—if you look for happiness, you will see it; if you look for distrust and envy and hatred—all those things—you will find those too.”

“Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.”

“When Government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought. This is unlawful. The First Amendment confirms the freedom to think for ourselves.”

“One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.”

“I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.”

“What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.”

“Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.”