Closeness Quote by Ottessa Moshfegh

“And they all lived happily ever after, until they died.”

— Ali Smith

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“And they lived happily thereafter, without each other.”

— Harsh Snehanshu

“she was at times most able to enjoy her family members when she could sense their presence nearby without actually interacting with them.”

— Curtis Sittenfeld, Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice

“I learned to accept my family for who they were and understand that, though they might be limited in certain areas, they all had…

— Caprice Crane

“What fun it had been, having an admirer even for that little while. No wonder people liked admirers. They seemed, in some strange way,…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“I was vaguely worried about how they would cope with wandering the desert of adulthood without the other's hand to hold, but then I…

— Nick Burd

“They were friends. That's all she ever seemed to have. Friends. She had enough of them.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

“For a few moments in the evening, then, they talked quietly and casually, as if they were old friends or exhausted enemies.”

— John Williams

“They were not a family anymore. They were strangers. Tied together by chains, but they had rusted, and there was no hope for them…

— Callie Hunter

“I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive.”

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“They always eased her lonesomeness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her.”

— Kristin Cashore