Acid Quote by Doris Lessing

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 become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

— Betty Smith

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

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books…

— Sebastian Faulks

“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 so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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’d spent most of her twenties dreading becoming an adult, and all of her thirties waiting to feel like an adult. The day she’d…

— Lillianna Blake

Those were the people who made her something, and without them she was different. She'd held on to them and to that old self…

— Ann Brashares

She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which…

— Anonymous

All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that…

— John Green

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