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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. courage affair breakdown celibacy celibate chaste enstrangement falling-in-love-with-a-beast final-decision lock-up love-affair mercilless michael-bassey-johnson padlock key breakup apart divorce parting single falling-in-love end cheating sea Michael Bassey Johnson
e65cd8b She who saves a single soul, saves the universe. universe saves cheshire single wonderland cat soul 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. marriage relationships freedom captivity married-life single matrimony 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 single lonely Stephen King
ca38fab You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know. happiness love self-acceptance single contentment couple self-esteem Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
871e9a3 Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car. spinsterhood spinster single Lisa Kleypas
9b0f875 One of the greatest advantages of singleness is the potential for greater focus on Christ and accomplishing work for Him. marriage work god life love potential calling single singleness christian 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. marriage feminism spinster single Kate Atkinson
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. metaphor left-out unloved the-message-to-the-planet iris-murdoch outsider single misery sad Iris Murdoch
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 single sartre Jean-Paul Sartre
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. sweet-valley single 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-woman single Zora Neale Hurston