Everyone who lived in high-up, magical places must feel the same way. You come down into the world and you mingle, but all the while there's something calling you back.

You and I share the same DNA.
Is there anything more lonely than that?

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

Tess realized one of the great modern dating sadnesses: everyone is so used to the comforting glow of the computer screen that no one can go so far as to say "good morning" in public without being liquored up.

When it comes to parental alienation or grandparent alienation, we walk around with the overwhelming emptiness of a child's absence while carrying the heaviness of their sweet and irreplaceable memory...

Adolescent alienation is going to find a sympathetic ear in Thoreau.