But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated....

“ But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get updates from, to inform of a comic discovery, to imagine while dancing in a lonely basement, and to return to, finally, when the music stopped. ”

Marina Keegan

From : The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories