No country Quote by Paul Bowles

“He felt empty and lost like he didn't belong anywhere.”

— James Dashner

“But the longing within him had grown even greater, the overpowering need to be alone. Locked in an empty room, entirely unwitnessed, silent and…

— Philip K. Dick

“He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The…

— Lois Lowry

“...(he) reminded me by his presence, by his natural and plain manner of being good, that there still existed a just world outside our…

— Primo Levi

“He was there for you, and yet at the same time he was inaccessible. You felt there was a secret core in him that…

— Paul Auster

“He felt at loose ends with himself like a man in a foreign city where he didn’t know the language. He felt out of…

— William Miller

“And then it was done. He was there, but he wasn’t. His consciousness, his self-awareness, the part of him that translated to a snarky…

— Lisa Henry

“I felt as though I had been offered a whole new world, and at the center of it was, and always must be, him.”

— Mereda Hart Farynyk

“How good it felt to be alone, stacking blocks. That's what came to him again, a kind of weight solidifying in his chest: how…

— Dan Chaon

“He readied himself to let go, to plunge in, to begin the swim out into the farther cold, out into the terrible, terrible freedom…

— Patrick Ness

“Standing in the center of the crowd, his solitude was enormous. He felt that in all the vast and frozen space in which he…

— Robert Goolrick

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois