“She stood awkwardly for another endless moment -- a total and obvious outsider, even though this was her house where she lived. It felt like she didn't belong anywhere. It felt like she probably never would.” HomeLonelinessIsolationBelongingOutsiderNot Belonging Book:Top Ten Source: Top Ten
“A future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still just the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song I used to know but forgot.” LoveHomeSongFutureLonelyYoung AdultContemporary Fiction Book:How to Love Source: How to Love
“She didn't understand how other people did it, how they just strolled right up to strangers and started conversations -- how they made themselves into people strangers would ever want to meet. She wasn't shy, not exactly. She was afraid.” LonelinessIsolationShynessBeing AfraidSocial AnxietyMaking Friends Book:Top Ten Source: Top Ten
“The thing about hiding out like this was that it did get boring, every once in a while. It occurred to Gabby to wonder if possibly she was missing something great. For all her bravado, it bothered her sometimes, that she couldn't make herself do what seemed to come so naturally to everyone else.” LonelinessIsolationSocial AnxietyMissing Out Book:Top Ten Source: Top Ten
“If you liked being alone all the time, that would be one thing. But I don't actually think you do. I think you're just letting yourself be scared.” LonelinessScaredAloneIsolation Book:Top Ten Source: Top Ten
“It occurred to her to wonder if this was what growing up meant, to continuously find yourself in situations that you didn't feel remotely prepared to handle.” LifeGrowing Up Book:Top Ten Source: Top Ten
“Wait, I almost shouted, but didn’t, and that would be my burden to bear. Instead, I stood on the curb and I watched him disappear, lights fading in the distance like waking up from a dream.” Regret Book:How to Love Source: How to Love
“The hideous thing is this: I want to forgive him. Even after everything, I do. A baby before my 17th birthday and a future as lonely as the surface of the moon and still the sight of him feels like a homecoming, like a song I used to know but somehow forgot.” LoveTeenage Pregnancy Book:How to Love Source: How to Love
“"Hey, Sawyer?" "Yeah? What’s up?" " I love you, you know that?" "I-…I do know that, actually. But- Jesus, Reena.” He laughs a bit, disbelieving. “It’s nice to hear.” It’s nice to say, I want to tell him, then realize I’ve got a whole country to say it. I’ve got a whole continent. I’ve got the whole world.” LoveSawyerReena Book:How to Love Source: How to Love
“Do you miss her? I blinked. Did I what? This was my best friend since preschool we were talking about, the girl whose snack and math homework I’d shared since before I had memorized my own phone number, who’d buried her cold, annoying little feet underneath me during a thousand different movie nights and showed me how to use a tampon. She’d grown up in my kitchen, she was my shadow- self—or I was hers— and Sawyer wanted to know if I missed her? What the hell kind of question was that?” FriendshipFriends Book:How to Love Source: How to Love