Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Living by myself out in Malibu has been really good. I kind of have my freedom; I've got a whole house to myself. The tough part comes when sometimes, you know, you get pretty lonely.

And when you don't have to talk to the person next to you, that's real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.

Solitude is independence.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.

I don't belong to anyone.

I'd rather be by myself, really, than have, like, a million posse around me.

I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Being on your own sometimes is appealing.

I was an only child so, at home, I'm turnt up by myself, doing whatever I wanna do.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

No, I don't have a boyfriend, I don't want one.

There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.

Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.

Solitude is un-American.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

I am single and not looking to be in a relationship.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.