It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have l — Naomi Shihab Nye, I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have l — Naomi Shihab Nye, I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have l — Naomi Shihab Nye, I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have l — Naomi Shihab Nye, I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have l — Naomi Shihab Nye, I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven
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It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.

— Naomi Shihab Nye, I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven
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