Alone Quote by Olivia Sudjic

“That night I took a long, wandering walk through Tokyo. I was restless and felt the need to move, to let the city’s currents…

— Barry Eisler

“What of it? Tokyo people are complicated. They live in such noise and confusion that their feelings are broken to little bits.” “Everything is…

— Yasunari Kawabata

“Along the way I stopped into a coffee shop. All around me normal, everyday city types were going about their normal, everyday affairs. Lovers…

— Haruki Murakami

“Not about the Japanese, but about moments of perfection. commit it to memory and make good use of it.”

— Melina Marchetta

“And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the…

— Donna George Storey

“As much as I'd wanted to stay in Japan to be with him, the real reason was that I wanted control of my life.…

— Amanda Sun

“Needless to say, it was inconceivable that I would be welome in, let alone invited to, their home. It was as well, then, that…

— David Liss

“She found that the whole world could be contained in one place because that place was herself. Nothing had prepared her for this.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“There were places, she now saw, that contained more happiness than ordinary places did. Unless you knew that such places existed, you might be…

— Matthew Thomas

“I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness.”

— Charlotte Eriksson

“All this is just a place, she said. And sometimes such a lonely one.”

— Dean Koontz

“Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I…

— Sarah Dessen