# Quote — M. John Harrison, Light

> People think it’s a failure to live alone. But it isn’t. The failure is to live with someone because you can’t face anything else.

- Author: [M. John Harrison](https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-john-harrison.md)
- Book: [Light](https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-john-harrison/light.md)
- Page: 29
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/M._John_Harrison#Light_(2002)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-john-harrison/light/people-think-its

## More from this book

> Generally, it was impossible to understand the motives of aliens.

p. 16 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-john-harrison/light/generally-it-was.md)

> “Everywhere you look it unpacks to infinity. What you look for, you find. And you people can have it. All of it.”
>
> The comfortable generosity of this offer puzzled Kearney, so he decided to ignore it. It seemed meaningless anyway.

p. 390 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-john-harrison/light/everywhere-you-look.md)

> She had impressed him as capable of behaviour even more meaningless than most human beings. He had watched her kill her own people with a ferocity that betrayed real grief. But she was someone, he had decided early, who struggled harder with life than she needed to: this he respected, even admired.

p. 361 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/m-john-harrison/light/she-had-impressed.md)