Shirley Jackson, Just An Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories Quotes
People who are all alone have every right to be friends with one another.("The Honeymoon Of Mrs. Smith" - Version 1)
...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group
I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime.
