Hope
''Loneliness is like an odour, like some sour secretion that forms a film on your skin and clothes. It can't be scrubbed away. The more lonely you become, the more alien you appear to others. The harder you try to appear normal, the more you advertise your loneliness. You just get worse. The cure for loneliness is a miracle cure. And surely, like me, you don't really believe in miracles?''