Isolation


Where the Crawdads Sing
Haunted
The Light Between Oceans
The Metamorphosis
The Martian
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Lord of the Flies
These Silent Woods
Near the Bone
The Troop
Dead of Winter
I Who Have Never Known Men
Piranesi
Stephen Fry
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me. ...more
Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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