Children Quote by Angela Flournoy

“She imagined she'd like to explain that it's difficult to know who you are once you are alone, when you have always been there…

— Fredrik Backman

“Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time…

— Philip Pullman

“She felt really alone now. But here's the thing- suddenly she felt as though she belonged inside the aloneness, and that feeling made her…

— Shannon Hale

“The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little…

— Stephen King

“She's never really wanted to be the only person, she's never been such a fan of being alone.”

— Alison Pace

“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

“I remember myself as a child, pudgy and awkward and unsure of myself. For a moment I wonder how anyone could love such a…

— Ashlee Willis

“No mother is ever, completely, a child’s idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as…

— Margaret Atwood

“She had no idea how to cope with life and she was only vaguely aware of her own inner emptiness. Were she capable of…

— Clarice Lispector

“Alone doesn't just mean without people. It can mean without anything else. And maybe, even without putting a word on me, she's found a…

— Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter

“Why do I feel this alone? Basically, because I’ve always been alone. I’ve always been alone. And alone I’ll be. It’s about time I…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“No one had told her this would happen, that her girlishness would give way to the solid force of wifehood, motherhood. The choices available…

— Meg Wolitzer