Hours Quote by Angela Carter

As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if…

— Haruki Murakami

Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.

— Anonymous

There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her here. But…

— Anthony Marra

She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the…

— Justin Cronin

“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

“She had thought herself trapped in a place outside the ordinary feeling lives of people; she had not noticed how many other people were…

— Kristin Cashore

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

— Roald Dahl

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only…

— Thomas Hardy

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

“Everything as strange and silent, and she seemed to be hundreds of miles away from anyone, but somehow she did not feel lonely at…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?

— Nora Roberts