Alone Quote by Maya Bode

“I had nothing to contribute. I played no part. I was on the edge. Different. Alone. Everything around me, grey. It was the same…

— Tim Relf

“I felt absolutely nothing. It was like a door quickly opened, showing me what horrible feelings I had inside, and then slammed shut again…

— Augusten Burroughs

“You were just a caretaker. They didn't have to feel what you felt; they just had to be supported in feeling what they felt.”

— George Saunders

“I don't know what it was about him, but I felt so drawn to him. The feeling that consumed me whenever I was around…

— Sadie Grubor

“I understood very little of what was going on, and I felt as though only dying would release me from the overwhelming sense of…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“And who was I? No one, really. Just a girl. But seeing myself through his eyes... I felt like so much more.”

— Kiera Cass

“And it all felt very unsettling to me.”

— Stephen Chbosky

“I had the strong sensation that I'd underestimated my parents and their devotion to me. Of course they'd be on my side, whether they…

— Bill Konigsberg

“soothed, observing me. I had a hard time meeting her eyes. “And sometimes they don’t know how to ask for help. They’re so caught…

— Rebecca Donovan

“I don't know. There's just something kind of mortifying to me about the intensity of those feelings. I remember them so clearly.”

— Becky Albertalli

“I understood that I was suffering because I couldn't make anyone else around me feel better.”

— Muriel Barbery

“Feeling very surprised too at myself. I knew what was happening, O my brothers. I was like growing up.”

— Anthony Burgess