“ Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort i… John Green
“ He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked like they'd been dipped in sugar. None of it seemed real,… R.D. Ronald
“ I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive. Helen Oyeyemi
“ The way a man drinks in company tells you nothing about him, but the way he drinks when alone reveals, without his realizing it, the very depths of his soul. Irène Némirovsky
“ People in love always tried to match the singles together, but what they didn't realize was that some people were meant to be alone. There was nothing wrong with that. S.H. Kolee
“ I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel. David Foster Wallace
“ An introverted person obviously affected by her past. Lived alone, had no sex life, had difficulty getting close to people. Kept her distance, and when she let loose there was no restraint. She chose… Stieg Larsson
“ The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken. George MacDonald
“ Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell. Charlotte Eriksson
“ I don't mind being alone either. The only problem is that if you're always alone, you get lonely. Colleen Houck
“ I once read that most people are afraid to live alone because to live alone means to die alone. They have visions of themselves eating their breakfast, enjoying the dripping sluice of a ripe plum, and… Jessica Anthony
“ And it was the din of all these hollow-sounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he was far from them, bey… James Joyce
“ They were drinking, laughing and dancing, but I was sitting alone in the corner and talking to your soul. M.F. Moonzajer
“ Losing myself is so second nature to me by now that I'm always surprised when it's noticed by others. Amy Wilensky
“ She wanted to sit in the pub with him the way Sam did with Steve, the way Matty and Karen had done last weekend with their boyfriends, to hold his hand as they walked down the street, to be able to sm… Harriet Evans
