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“...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow,…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She was thinking about the way she’d always taken for granted that the world had certain people in it, either central to her days…

— Emily St. John Mandel

“But even thinking that brought on an incredible isolation, a suspicion she'd always had, she didn't belong anywhere, she was going to outlive everyone…

— Philipp Meyer

“She had no idea how to cope with life and she was only vaguely aware of her own inner emptiness. Were she capable of…

— Clarice Lispector

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She found that the whole world could be contained in one place because that place was herself. Nothing had prepared her for this.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“For now she need not think about anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need…

— Virginia Woolf

“She wondered if she was in the midst of an anecdote that, for reasons of proximity, she was not yet able to perceive.”

— Carrie Fisher

“One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to…

— Marcel Proust

“She had thought that when someone died, it would be like they went into a different room. She had not known that life itself…

— Sheila Heti

“Then she walked, walked flat out, walked with an ache coming up through the earth and into the heel of her striking foot. No…

— Alice Sebold

“She believed that people revealed themselves most when they were vaguely anxious, and few things brought out nonspecific anxieties like being in the presence…

— Orson Scott Card