“Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you…”

— Mary Stewart , book Nine Coaches Waiting

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English novelist 1916–2014

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