“books are the arms which murder isolation, drive away loneliness, fulfill a friend's company.”
“Loneliness is remedied at times with the company of a friend and at other times with the company of oneself.”
“What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.”
“But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.”
“A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.”
“To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.”