I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them.

The truth has a way of changing people’s plans.

—Veronica Roth in Insurgent

You’re the one who has to live with your choice, everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

—Veronica Roth in The Transfer

Maybe there’s more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

—Veronica Roth in Divergent

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

—Veronica Roth in Divergent

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I’ve been. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

—Suzanne Collins in The Hunger Games

I was beginning to suspect that underneath the awkwardness there was just more awkwardness and not much else. And that would explain why I stood in a room full of people and felt like the loneliest girl in the world.

—Sarra Manning in Guitar Girl

When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need is your own.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

—Warsan Shire

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

—David Levithan in Every You, Every Me