Isolation


Where the Crawdads Sing
Haunted
The Light Between Oceans
The Metamorphosis
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
The Martian
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Dead of Winter
These Silent Woods
Near the Bone
The Shuddering
The Troop
Lord of the Flies
I Who Have Never Known Men
Sonya Sones
But most days, I wander around feeling invisible. Like I'm a speck of dust floating in the air that can only be seen when a shaft of light hits it. ...more
Sonya Sones, One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

W. Somerset Maugham
His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless; he was vain of the wider knowledge he had acquired from the perusal of so many books, his mind was alert, and he had not the skill to hide his contempt for his companions' stupidity. They complained that he was conceited; and, since he excelled only in matters which to them were unimportant, they asked satirically what he had to be conceited about. He was developing a se ...more
W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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