“Maybe I was more alone than anyone in the whole wide world. Maybe that was okay.”
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“It was as easy to be alone with six kin as it is to be alone by yourself, and maybe easier.”
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Tanith Lee
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Volkhavaar
Source: Volkhavaar (1977), Chapter 8 (pp. 73-74)
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