“That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person – even a loved person, and I was not loved – was alone. On the whole globe, there was no one but myself, and I was shaken and torn down to the merest speck of being.”

“That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person – even a loved person, and I was not loved – was alone. On the whole globe, there was no one but myself, and I was shaken and torn down to the merest speck of being.”

— Kate Grenville