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“She quickly discovered that the world is divided into people who know how to be comfortable by themselves on a bar chair and people…

— Jonathan Franzen

“She felt most comfortable in nature, where things weren’t required to look like the other in order to live together peacefully.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“It was a way of hers always to want to spring into any fray in which someone was made uncomfortable or unhappy.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“She enjoyed being right, but as such people go, rarely was.”

— Vaishnavi Nair K

“She felt like she’d done so much work to appear as eccentric as possible, and still, when it came down to it, she was…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“She much preferred to be safely on the outside of life, watching, than deeply involved.”

— Katie Fforde

“...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow,…

— Daphne Kalotay

“so at least she could feel less singled out, less repulsed by herself, less like a spot on the world that should have been…

— Krista Ritchie

“It wasn't the same sort of defiant attitude she saw so often among young men of the ton. She'd met so many men of…

— Julia Quinn

“Throughout her life, she behaved as if she had never heard anyone suggest that a woman couldn't do entirely as she pleased.”

— Francine Prose

“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

“People made no sense to her. Men, with whom she had everything in common, did not want her around. Women, with whom she had…

— Philipp Meyer