Teresa Medeiros Quotes

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think.

I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.

I was an only child, so I was alone a lot.

Being an only child, I was alone a lot and I had to make up games.

I was the shiest person you could think of. I didn't really speak. I was an only child, so most of my life I spent in my bedroom playing with toys by myself, speaking through them.

When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.

Sometimes, when a man is alone, that's all you got is your dog.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.

As a child, I spent a lot of time alone. I used to sit in my closet with one cracker. I'd pretend that I was on the North Pole freezing to death, and I had to somehow survive on this one tiny cracker.

I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

Better be alone than in bad company.

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.