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“And the feeling I had was not of wanting her so much as being surrounded by her, blundering inside her life without having moved.”

— Jennifer Egan

“ Story of my life , she thought miserably. She was never willing to put herself out there.”

— Kimberly Derting

“She’s been trying to escape since she was little. The thing I don’t think she’s realized is that eventually you have to stop. And…

— Morgan Matson

“She sits in a heart, silent.. but she's there and she won't leave, not for a while yet.”

— Paul McGirl

“He had seen so much of life, but even more of death. He had seen countless eras come and go and still he braved…

— Michelle M. Pillow

“...the longer she had lived away, the more she realized that nowhere became home… though everywhere had.”

— Susan Örnbratt

“She never felt like she belonged anywhere,except for when she was lying on her bed, pretending to be somewhere else.”

— Rainbow Rowell Eleanor and Park

“The first time she had tried to kill herself, she had intuited that there was no escape. She had seen, with sudden clarity, that…

— Dan Chaon

“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even…

— Han Kang

“We lived in a small house, so there was no escape from the goddamn racket of her loneliness.”

— Sherman Alexie

“She was halfway up the ledge and halfway down and had never felt so alone in all her life.”

— Dr. L.L

“She wished she could stay here, where nothing could ever touch her but him.”

— Red Garnier