“ The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. D.H. Lawrence
“ It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality. Harry Stack Sullivan
“ A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. Dean Koontz
“ Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emotiona… Jane Hersey
