But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.
Mary BaloghEven friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.
Mary BaloghI am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again.
Mary Balogh