Connections Quote by Ian Mcewan

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

What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Anyway, how can you say things like that? You don't know me at all." She wasn't really caught up in this game, but she…

— Judith Krantz

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

— Anonymous

If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that…

— Doris Lessing

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think…

— Margaret Mitchell

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

— Ann Brashares

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

She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.

— Anonymous

She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world,…

— Carson McCullers

Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for…

— Virginia Woolf

She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade…

— Toni Morrison