Armor Quote by Nevada Barr

“She felt the burden of loneliness lift from her, unaware that she had long been wearing it's mantle.”

— Trudy Brasure

“She felt like a child clad in the armour of an adult. She was perplexed at the respect she received from other adults; she…

— Jerold J. Kreisman

“She could not trust people who wore all their "weird" on the outside. It left so little within to discover.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Her shame, she was certain, marked her in ways apparent to anyone who looked closely. It had grown to her like a second skin”

— Sondra Allan Carr

“I always thought of her as the sweet, naïve one. But perhaps she wore her sweetness and naïvety as a shield. Perhaps she always…

— Marie Lu

“She revered solitude, but only because there was the possibility of breaking it. Of communing at last with another.”

— Amanda Coplin

“Next she lost her belief in the sincerity of those about her. She secretly refused to believe that anyone (herself excepted) loved anyone. All…

— Thornton Wilder

“She had never yet encountered a personage so exotic, and she always felt more at ease in the presence of anything strange. It was…

— Henry James

“She knew he’d be back. No matter how elaborate its charade, she recognized loneliness when she saw it. She sensed that in some strange…

— Arundhati Roy

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.

— Anne Rice

“A terrible feeling of loneliness besieged her, so strong it was almost like physical pain...”

— Jennifer Wilde

“This was the difference, she thought, between solitude and isolation. And now she knew something about herself she hadn’t known before. It was an…

— James S.A. Corey