Alive Quote by Tao Lin

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

— Tom Perrotta

If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to be sure…

— Sebastian Faulks

I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out of the…

— Doris Lessing

And it was just the three of us - three bodies and two people - the three who knew what had happened and too…

— John Green

I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching…

— Marian Keyes

It was like I existed in a kind of parallel universe, thinking thoughts and feelings that no one else understood.

— Lucy Christopher

I felt like there were two people inside me. I was trying to be somebody I was not, and I was frustrated that people…

— Kaytranada

I lifted my right foot to step up into the bus and collided head on with an invisible force that entered my awareness like…

— Suzanne Segal

In the beginning was the secret brain. The brain was celled and soldered in the thought

— Dylan Thomas

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me.

— Joyce Carol Oates

They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way…

— Ann Brashares