Portia

“Do you really feel that out of place, that lonely? Because I feel that lonely, too. Sometimes I feel like I’m just watching my daily life play out on a giant projection screen, while I’m living my real life in my head, or something. I don’t know. If I was in a room with a thousand people, I’d still feel alone.”
― Nick Miller, Isn't It Pretty To Think So?

“Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.”
― Jean Rhys, Quartet

“There was, Alicia realized, a single hour that all the days since your birth pointed you toward. What you thought was a maze of choices, all the possibilities of what your life might become, was, in fact, a series of steps you took along a road, and when you reached your destination and looked back, only one path—the one chosen for you—was visible.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

“I loved to walk in her garden after dinner; it felt alive, even in the winter. She always told me that rosemary grows in the garden of a strong woman. Hers were like trees.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The School of Essential Ingredients