Apartment Quote by Michael Crichton

She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in…

— Ann Brashares

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books…

— Sebastian Faulks

“She had defeated loneliness by bringing to life the books that peopled her imagination and making friends of them. With devastating clarity she saw…

— Margaret Pemberton

“It had come as a relief when she had been forced to go into the hospital in Emporia, where she could be given drugs…

— Nancy Pickard

There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her here. But…

— Anthony Marra

This was her life. Not the life she had once dreamed of, not a life her younger self would ever have imagined or desired,…

— Kim Edwards

“That night Christine Hartmann went to bed with a book she had taken from among the many that lay strewn around the Manor. From…

— Sebastian Faulks

Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over…

— Carson McCullers

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

— Lorrie Moore

How did her life live itself without her.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

— Betty Smith

“For the rest, she grew used to the life that she was leading - used to the enormous sleepless nights, the cold, the dirt,…

— George Orwell