Lonely Quote by Joan Aiken

“And so the pair of them went on in the big, draughty house, with the carriages rushing in the square beyond, irritating each other…

— D.J. Taylor

It was a train full of strangers, and they were all the same.

— Cherie Priest

“They were lonely and sad people, all three of them, and they would not make one another less sad, but they could, with great…

— Yiyun Li

He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some…

— Fannie Flagg

Together, joined in effort by the burden, they staggered up the last steep of the mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed…

— William Golding

“The three sentries at the entrance to the mines didn’t know what was happening below. Everyone was always screaming in Endovier. Everyone sounded the…

— Sarah J. Maas

“The trains roared in on iron rails, bringing people from places he had never seen, taking them away to places he had only heard…

— Victoria Wilcox

But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other, two by…

— Primo Levi

“was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without…

— Paul Theroux

“How small and neat and comically serious the other men looked, with their grey-flecked crew cuts and their button-down collars and their brisk little…

— Richard Yates

But I wasn't happy... when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' [said Halt]. 'Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace... The Ranger…

— John Flanagan

“They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the catwalk. Rust…

— Cormac McCarthy