Avoiding Quote by Ann Brashares

Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer…

— Ann Brashares

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 had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“Lena is sure that other people don't have many selves. She is terrified that she doesn't have a core self, an essential Lena. She…

— Haley Tanner

...the pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it.

— Christina Dodd

She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing…

— Tom Perrotta

But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself…

— Debbie Macomber

Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent…

— Ann Brashares

…she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less…

— Louisa May Alcott

I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of…

— Kami Garcia

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time,…

— George Bernard Shaw

Dena had always been a loner. She did not feel connected to anything. Or anybody. She felt as if everybody else had come into…

— Fannie Flagg