Quote by Gregg Hurwitz

“Hell was his dead niece whose disappearance had shattered everything he had taken for granted: trust, love, friendship, family bonds.”

— Laura Elliot

“. . . for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.”

— Charles Dickens

“Observing others go through them, he used to admire midlife crises, the courage and shamelessness and existential daring of them, but after he'd watched…

— Lorrie Moore

“The woman dying of cancer in The Barracks facing the raw fear of everything in her life disintegrating. The abused adolescent boy in The…

— John McGahern

“Always I have possessed the loneliness of one raised amid intrigues and clustering secrets, the isolation of a boy who cannot trust the completeness…

— Robin Hobb

His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an…

— William S. Burroughs

“He stood and watched his friend hobble around the house, felt the cold claw of loneliness reach out and touch him with icy fingers.…

— Clifford D. Simak

“He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to him that he had been alone…

— Joseph Roth

“He is in no real danger. He merely suffers from a lethargy, a sickness that is common among the depressed. He has forgotten who…

— Boethius

“An awareness had come over him that he wasn’t going to die. Loneliness in itself could not destroy him. Neglect was insufficient. And so…

— Anne Rice

“He may have his mother’s gray–green eyes, but this wonderful little boy—and Smitty’s godson—still had the cold, hard expression of a predator. Just like…

— Shelly Laurenston

“He was just a sixteen-year old boy who had been killed, a kid whose photo had been in the paper, a kid who would…

— Nancy Springer