Anonymity Quote by Alice Sebold

She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

— Alice Sebold

“Then she walked, walked flat out, walked with an ache coming up through the earth and into the heel of her striking foot. No…

— Alice Sebold

“Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It…

— Alice Sebold

All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that…

— John Green

She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was…

— Terry Pratchett

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

— Ann Brashares

She was so quiet. So reflective. And she could erase herself, her spirit, with a swiftness that truly startled, when she knew the people…

— Alice Walker

Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that…

— Ian Mcewan

“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days…

— Emily St. John Mandel

After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of…

— Susan Minot

She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of…

— Victor Hugo

“often she had seemed to herself to be moving among those vanished figures of old books and pictures, an invisible ghost among the living,…

— Virginia Wolf