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“This is not a romance — I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams [author's introduction]”
― Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career

“Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth sense, not in some fanciful play of words, but physically. It hurt... it hurt like phagocytes devouring the white matter of her brain. It wasn't merely that she had no friends. She didn't even have a sanctuary in which she could simply be alone.”
― Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons

“All the hate and scorn and love of a deep nature, such as the shy man is ever cursed by, fester and corrupt within, instead of spending themselves abroad, and sour him into a misanthrope and cynic.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

“No emotion is more inrooted and intense in the minds of common people than hatred and fear of anything “strange.”
― Count Stenbock, The Other Side