Single Quotes

“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.”
― Stephen King, A Winter's Tale: The Breathing Method

“She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.”
― Candace Bushnell

“I'm not sure if it's better to be alone but it's probably safer.”
― Eleanor Prescott, Alice Brown's Lessons in the Curious Art of Dating

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of her right mind must be in want of a decent man.”
― Alexandra Potter, Me and Mr. Darcy

“I’ve been having a lot of dance parties alone in my apartment while learning to cook. Part of my quest to be an attractive single is to learn how to cook and sew and get a license.”
― Sara Quin

“I'm OK with being single, but I'm not OK when the time comes where I have to move my furniture around and to change the high ceiling light balls...”
― Hiroko Sakai

“- I believe in unlimited discovery and achievement.

- I believe that dreams can become reality.

- I believe in true love.

- I believe in kindness and intelligence.

- I trust life, regardless.”
― Elysse Poetis, The Mind of Poetess

“As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners”
― Hiroko Sakai

“Is this better or worse than being married and living in the suburbs? Better or worse? Who can tell?”
― Candace Bushnell

“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.”
― Francine Pascal, Model Flirt