Quote by David Nicholls

“her face was like a party that everyone had left.”

— Juan Gabriel Vásquez

“and she noticed who stayed, and it was the same people who had always been there.”

— Adrienne Maree Brown

“... Other students lived on campus and got drunk at parties. Other students dated and graduated and got married and led normal lives. She…

— Michelle Davidson Argyle

“The party was very painful to me, as parties usually were, and I felt the familiar loneliness of crowds.”

— Pat Conroy

“She sat in her chair, eyes closed. She liked to be the last one to leave. She despised crowds, and their opinions as they…

— Janet Fitch

“Abbey relaxed, grateful not only that someone had thought to throw a party for her, but that she had been able to escape attending.”

— Emily Ann Benedict

“At college, more than anywhere else, one was likely to make the friendships that supported one through life.”

— Vera Brittain

“It amazed her how much people wanted to talk at parties. And about nothing in particular.”

— J.D. Robb

“She did have friends, she had just made a decision to stay home and experiment with dying.”

— Ann Patchett

“You could only truly reinvent yourself far from home. On trips to see her parents, she still feels a little stifled by all that…

— Jojo Moyes

“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

“Ladies and gentlemen, friends and neighbors, and anyone else I've managed to leave out–”

— Alan Bradley