I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being aloneโa-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.
J. D. SalingerI was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean Iโve left schools and places I didnโt even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I donโt care if itโs a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know Iโm leaving it. If you donโt you feel even worse.
J. D. Salinger