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“I realized that my time in this place had come to an end; now that my schooldays were over, I no longer belonged here.…

— Peter Ackroyd

“I learned to move silently in the background, a dirty, neglected little kid with no voice, no wants, and who made no trouble so…

— Laura Wiess

“After a year I felt so plugged in to all the stories and the images and the fear that even the dead started telling…

— Michael Herr

“I'd never been anything but 'in transit' through my life. In a sudden, complete, instantaneous vision, I saw it as a train and myself…

— Anna Kavan

“I always knew one day I’d have to leave here to go to college but that seemed so far away. Now my chest ached…

— Karen Lynch

“I realized that even if no one ever found me, and even if I lived out the rest of my life here, always missing,…

— Catherine Lacey

“Most people felt lost after high school. Sometimes I felt like I'd never really been found in the first place.”

— Lish McBride

“But over the years I came to realize that living in a detached way is, in fact, a withdrawal from life, an estrangement not…

— David Brooks

“Once a picture was taken, the experience was purged of its power to haunt.”

— Tatjana Soli

“I was a ghost, a skeletal frame of bones and sweat, a distraction for a night, barely something to cling to in the dark,…

— Richard Thomas

“It was more likely the fear of emptiness, of being left alone in a shadow world when everyone else abandoned me, each for his…

— Ebba Haslund

“Moving had no season, was all seasons, crossed time like a train with no schedule. We moved so often our mail never caught up…

— Dorothy Allison