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“Her room felt wonderful to her, as usual. She looked around with satisfaction… She imagined to herself that she would always live this way,…

— Louise Fitzhugh

“But even thinking that brought on an incredible isolation, a suspicion she'd always had, she didn't belong anywhere, she was going to outlive everyone…

— Philipp Meyer

“She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“It reminded her too, time and again, of her own susceptibility to panic and her unfathomable dread of being alone.”

— Richard Yates

“And the feeling I had was not of wanting her so much as being surrounded by her, blundering inside her life without having moved.”

— Jennifer Egan

“Once she’d stepped into her room and shut the door behind her, all common sense and good intentions evaporated. She stood awestruck and mute,…

— Vivienne Savage

“It was impossible to tell how she felt. When she tried to look inside of herself, all she saw were tangled things shifting in…

— Joshua Gaylord

“...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow,…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She couldn’t believe the peculiar and pretentious state of the world that she had once felt so at home in...”

— H.C. Roberts

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She liked being alone, and she was alone a lot. When she met people, she often found them deeply strange, their behavior incomprehensible, their…

— Bernhard Schlink

“She felt most comfortable in nature, where things weren’t required to look like the other in order to live together peacefully.”

— Tahereh Mafi