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Link	Quote	Tags	Author
3c9c52a	It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.	affair apart breakdown breakup celibacy celibate chaste cheating courage divorce end enstrangement falling-in-love falling-in-love-with-a-beast final-decision key lock-up love-affair mercilless michael-bassey-johnson padlock parting sea single	Michael Bassey Johnson
e65cd8b	She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.	cat cheshire saves single soul universe wonderland	Lewis Carroll
4e24f95	If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.	marry single	Thomas Hardy
11f61e1	[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.	captivity freedom marriage married-life matrimony relationships single	Michel de Montaigne
4a71101	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. Lonely in a way that perhaps only single girls fresh from small Midwestern towns know. Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly....perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness- the ache of the uprooted plant.	determined homesickness lonely single	Stephen King
ca38fab	You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.	contentment couple happiness love self-acceptance self-esteem single	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
871e9a3	Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.	single spinster spinsterhood	Lisa Kleypas
9b0f875	One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.	calling christian god life love marriage potential single singleness work young	Elizabeth George
17e799f	I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agreed.	feminism marriage single spinster	Kate Atkinson
4b83c73	Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?	nausea sartre single	Jean-Paul Sartre
62bb2e1	I don't think I can marry, I'm not fit for it, I'm not real enough. That's the trouble. I'm a puppet that's realised what's wrong with itself and it's . I'm propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I'm propped up crying in a corner.	iris-murdoch left-out metaphor misery outsider sad single the-message-to-the-planet unloved	Iris Murdoch
22a102c	Ever since her obsession with Jonathan Cain, a deranged transfer student who had been at Sweet Valley for a month, Enid's life had been entirely guyless.	single sweet-valley	Francine Pascal
65ab486	"...you needs uh man." Janie laughed at all these well-wishers because she knew that they knew plenty of women alone; that she was not the first one they had ever seen. But most of the others were poor. Besides she liked being lonesome for a change. This freedom feeling was fine. These men didn't represent a thing she wanted to know about. She had already experienced them..."	single single-woman	Zora Neale Hurston

3c9c52a

It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.

affair apart breakdown breakup celibacy celibate chaste cheating courage divorce end enstrangement falling-in-love falling-in-love-with-a-beast final-decision key lock-up love-affair mercilless michael-bassey-johnson padlock parting sea single

Michael Bassey Johnson

e65cd8b

She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

cat cheshire saves single soul universe wonderland

Lewis Carroll

4e24f95

If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.

marry single

Thomas Hardy

11f61e1

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

captivity freedom marriage married-life matrimony relationships single

Michel de Montaigne

4a71101

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. Lonely in a way that perhaps only single girls fresh from small Midwestern towns know. Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it in our mind. It can be a terribly keen blade, not just a sickness in metaphor but in fact as well. It can change the way one looks at the world; the faces one sees in the street look not just indifferent but ugly....perhaps even malignant. Homesickness is a real sickness- the ache of the uprooted plant.

determined homesickness lonely single

Stephen King

ca38fab

You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

contentment couple happiness love self-acceptance self-esteem single

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

871e9a3

Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.

single spinster spinsterhood

Lisa Kleypas

9b0f875

One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him.

calling christian god life love marriage potential single singleness work young

Elizabeth George

17e799f

I mean what else is there for a woman to do if she doesn't want to go from the parental to the marital home with nothing in between? 'An educated woman,'Millie amended. 'An educated woman,' Ursula agreed.

feminism marriage single spinster

Kate Atkinson

4b83c73

Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?

nausea sartre single

Jean-Paul Sartre

62bb2e1

I don't think I can marry, I'm not fit for it, I'm not real enough. That's the trouble. I'm a puppet that's realised what's wrong with itself and it's . I'm propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I'm propped up crying in a corner.

iris-murdoch left-out metaphor misery outsider sad single the-message-to-the-planet unloved

Iris Murdoch

22a102c

Ever since her obsession with Jonathan Cain, a deranged transfer student who had been at Sweet Valley for a month, Enid's life had been entirely guyless.

single sweet-valley

Francine Pascal

65ab486

"...you needs uh man." Janie laughed at all these well-wishers because she knew that they knew plenty of women alone; that she was not the first one they had ever seen. But most of the others were poor. Besides she liked being lonesome for a change. This freedom feeling was fine. These men didn't represent a thing she wanted to know about. She had already experienced them..."

single single-woman

Zora Neale Hurston