Isolation


Where the Crawdads Sing
Haunted
The Light Between Oceans
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
The Metamorphosis
The Martian
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Dead of Winter
I Who Have Never Known Men
Near the Bone
These Silent Woods
Project Hail Mary
The Troop
Lord of the Flies
Attachments by Rainbow RowellThe Sorrows of Young Mike by John ZelaznyAll The Places We Lived by Richard Owain RobertsLeaving the Atocha Station by Ben LernerSexting by G.B. Hope
Fiction Involving the Internet
126 books — 125 voters

Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu GuoMy Fathers' Daughter by Hannah Azieb PoolStill Born by Guadalupe NettelWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonTennis Lessons by Susannah  Dickey
Women Going Through Shit
9 books — 1 voter
Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteMidnight Cowboy by James Leo HerlihyAn Eye For Others by Tom  McDonoughCittà in fiamme by Garth Risk HallbergPunk Avenue by Phil Marcade
Rock Bottom in New York
26 books — 11 voters

Fernando Pessoa
Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. You may have all the splendours of the mind and the soul, in which case you're a noble slave, or an intelligent servant, but you're not free. And you can't hold this up as your own tragedy, for your birth is a tragedy of Fate alo ...more
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.
Wayne Cordeiro, Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion

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