| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c271223 | She fails to see who I am, even, for her eyes do not, will not, take me in. Instead they transmit a powerful message. She is like a billboard flashing, starkly: 'Keep Out'. | emotional-distance ignoring-people withdrawn isolation mental-disorder mental-illness | Carol Lee | |
| 89f8c81 | She'd convinced herself that Subhash was her rival, and that she was in competition for him for Bela, a competition that felt insulting, unjust. But of course it had not been a competition, it had been her own squandering. Her own withdrawal, covert, ineluctable. With her own hand she'd painted herself into a corner, and then out of the picture altogether | withdrawn self-sabotage | Jhumpa Lahiri |