Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.

I was suppose to write a book about being a mom, to organize my thoughts into chapters and figure out a structure to hang them on, to make a lasting point, but somehow I decided to go ahead and become a mother instead.

It's much better to be apart and wish you were together than to be together and wish you were apart.

Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.

But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.

Solitude is a place where all is quiet - except the beating of your heart.

Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.