Quote by W.E.B. Du Bois

“What he wanted was to find that world-within-the-world where he could be himself by himself.”

— Charlie Lovett

“And there came to him a feeling which he had often had before in many different places--that he himself was a part of all…

— Earnest Poole

“He had no place in the world, he said once, therefore he could go everywhere.”

— Patricia A. McKillip

“Slowly he had learned that there is a world beneath the visible one, and that people, some people at least, have a different life,…

— Marcus Sedgwick

“The world turned itself into a better place around him.”

— Rainbow Rowell

“...(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

“Suddenly, he felt that the world had no place for him, despite how large it was.”

— Anonymous

“He had long been outside of the world of simple desires and their fulfillments, and he was inept and uncertain.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Sometimes he felt like the only one on earth. He was different. He always was. His attempts at living in the regular world seemed…

— Ann Brashares

“Finally, he came to the point in life when he started believing whatever it was that he was missing must have not been of…

— Stevan V. Nikolic

“All he feels is the bored emptiness of the flat, flat world. And there’s no one who bores him more than himself.”

— David Levithan

“For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about…

— Pearl S. Buck