In-search-of-lost-time Quote by Marcel Proust

“There was, too, a reality to her new life that her old life had lacked, and she realized with a shock that she had…

— Robin McKinley

“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of…

— Anna Kavan

“She had thought herself trapped in a place outside the ordinary feeling lives of people; she had not noticed how many other people were…

— Kristin Cashore

“Her life was her own now and if there was happiness to be found, it was up to her to seek it. She couldn't,…

— Debbie Macomber

“Just the sight of him brought back everything that was good and homelike to her mind. It was like coming back to her own…

— L.J. Smith

“She had forgotten how to transmute loneliness into mere aloneness, how not to fall into the hole of his absence.”

— Bar Fridman-Tell

“In her spare time she scribbled her thoughts, wishes and dreams, life and times. It kept her sane despite her loneliness.”

— Aporva Kala

“He had missed the deepest of all companionships, a relation with the earth itself, with a countryside and a people. That relationship he knew…

— Willa Cather

“In that moment, she had felt like there wasn't a place in the world he wouldn't go with her, and she couldn't think of…

— Kaye Thornbrugh

“It never occurred to me that she might travel from one man to the next to avoid being abandoned. Or to avoid being worshiped…

— Alan Lightman

“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

“He was the only person who saw her for herself; as a lonely girl who just wanted to love and live normally.”

— Isabella Modra