Quote by Hiromi Kawakami

“Circumstances bring people together, and take them apart. One cannot keep up with everyone in a lifetime.”

— Jennifer Worth

“while the excluded begin to realize, having endured everything, that they can endure everything.”

— James Baldwin

“Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states.…

— Edward Carey

“How could a person not belong in the only place she ever lived?”

— Tracy L. Higley

“There were so many people in the world who wasted their aliveness, who hung back when they should reach out, who sat out when…

— Jessie Evans

“We suffer alone. We are not alone. There's life elsewhere. We have each other. Till death do us part.”

— Joseph McElroy

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”

— Frederic Bastiat

“No one could know how difficult this was, not unless they had lived through the same thing.”

— Victoria Jenkins

“You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love.”

— Rossana Condoleo

“They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way…

— Ann Brashares

“I wondered if there was any way to live amongst other people and refuse to be harnessed by their expectations and dependencies.”

— Robin Hobb