“She was right: school was lonely. The eighteen and nineteen year olds didn't socialize with the younger kids, and though there were… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
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“In her minds eye she sat there, in the domesticated golden sunlight on the velvet sofa, lapped around by carpets and books… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“Oh, it doesn't get me. I'm pretty well cloistered, and I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
![“She was right: school was lonely. The eighteen and nineteen year olds didn't socialize with the younger kids, and though there were plenty of students my age and younger [...] their lives were so cloistered and their concerns so foolish and foreign-seeming that it was as if they spoke some lost…” quote by Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b4c/donna-tartt-391_cloistered_she-was-right-school-was-lonely-the-eigh_468237.jpg)
