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“Perhaps this was what it was to grow up: this realization that the world was already staffed with people and that one was not…

— Chris Cleave

“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 had a sense of comedy that was really exquisite, but she needed people, always people, to bring it out, with the inevitable result…

— Virginia Woolf

“It was the air she wanted and the world she would now exclusively choose; the quiet chambers, nobly overwhelming, rich but slightly veiled, opened…

— Henry James

“...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

“A very important part of creating a new life was independence. She did not want to be accountable to anyone but herself.”

— Robyn Carr

“She was too dependent on what other people thought of her, and that was her downfall. She cared too much. She was only what…

— Steph Bowe

“There was something wild about her, as if she was connected to this place but not the people.”

— David Metzenthen

“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

“She was becoming the person she'd be for her whole life. Each thing she chose contributed to that person. She didn't want to be…

— Ann Brashares

“She was tired of everyone deciding her life for her. She was ready to figure out who she really was--not what anyone else told…

— Marissa Meyer

“She was always different from other people—more outspoken, more independent, more fearless.”

— Lauren Oliver